Can you sleep when the wind blows <br />Can you ignore the cyclone as it tears <br />Away the house of your moaning neighbor <br />Maybe some have become refugees in their <br />Own country can you laugh and say you're <br />Sorry and refuse to give them sanctuary? <br />The wind is blowing exceedingly hard out there <br />Because we have abandoned Prudence <br />Because we have got rid of Temperance <br />Because we lack Courage and our Faith is weak <br />The wind is bringing death and destruction <br />To us because we have murdered Justice <br />The wind is hunting us down because we don't <br />Trust our public representatives <br />The terrible destructive wind torpedoes our flimsy <br />Structures because we are the enemies of Love <br />Can you sleep when the wind blows my brother <br />Can you snore away in nightmarish contentment <br />When you know the hobos will be feasting on nothing <br />As the wild out of control storm crashes through <br />The weak fortifications of those who sleep under <br />The cheap blanket of the stars as the terrified <br />Neglected villagers hammer on the doors of the less <br />Affected rich who send them away? <br />Can you have faith in the less fortunate and show <br />The world that you have a real human heart unlike <br />The many who have lumps of fat where their human <br />Hearts are supposed be?<br /><br />BrokenHeartPheko Motaung<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/can-you-sleep-when-the-wind-blows/
