All Modern Day Martyrs

Dry eyes are crying,
Mute throats are screaming,
Paralytic questions and answers
Freezing all courage and hope.

Injustice of every color,
Rainbows running red,
All the pain of others
Drifts rights through your head.

The second coming is here,
But Jesus Christ is no longer giving bread,
Caught in the crossfire
Murderers shot him dead.

The whole system is fucked,
Judges being bribed,
Murderers running free
While their slaves are being tried.

Massacres on the nightly news,,
People being shot,
For after all a gun can do
What our lives cannot.

War is being celebrated,
While parents sit and cry;
Their darling little children are watching
Some other mother's child die.

All modern-day martyrs
Are forever sleeping in the graveyards,
Overflowing with the innocent dead,
Where their bodies lie interred
No one to mourn their passing
They lie forever silent
Dreaming of a lost and
Forgotten cause.

All modern-day martyrs
Rise up from the mass graves
Filled with the corpses of the massacred.
And maybe one day your deaths will reach
All these indifferent ears.