there is no peace on earth
that's a bill we've been sold
no justice this side of heaven
nothing like what we've been told
no closure definitely no righting
no great leveler of scores
just ruins of smashed structures
and endlessly slammed doors
no answers only more questions
no thing that makes any sense
no one gives a fat rat's
nor cares a tinker's tuppence
it's never done, it's only over
nothing completed just all spent
finished puzzle never seen
pieces all busted up and bent
no winners only fields of losers
no awarding of laurel wreath
no hearing job well done, love
only kicked square in the teeth
cuz everyone's a critic
they all want their pound of flesh
even death doesn't end them
they just tighten up the mesh
no solving nor even salving
your wounds and your pain
don't look here for a solution
maybe move on, try again?
there's no medicine in the cabinet
for what ails there's no pill
you're much worse than we thought
and no drug for your kind of ill
we have nothing to offer you
you're at the end of the rope
it's quite hopeless we fear
but don't you dare lose hope
clutch at all false promises
hang on to thin air
grasp at offered straws
don't you kick away the chair
it gets better we think
though we're never sure how
we've experienced nothing like it
we just know you'll manage
somehow
so look to the heavens
or look here or everywhere
if you find it hurrah
if not we really don't care
cry out to someone or no one
it don't matter, no one'll hear
cry alone in the cold
you don't matter my dear
that's what I always heard
but what they said was wrong
at least I hope they were
that's the burden of my song
"I look to the heavens from whence cometh my help." Psalm 121
"Surely I wait for the Lord who bends down to me and hears my cry." Psalm 40:2
"Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Amos 5:24
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