Darkness in the desert

They say they will build                                                                                                                   
A huge new shiny city                                                                                                                      
To bury pity         

While money from oil                                                                                                                         
Buys shallow favours abroad                                                                                                            
In so many sports    

Prison cells are full                                                                                                                           
With so much innocent life                                                                                                                
Where murder is rife 

So many lost souls                                                                                                                               
Far from the light of family                                                                                                              
Where once they were free   

                                                                                                         
For all the wealth                                                                                                                               
That has washed the blood away                                                                                                    
Really doesn’t pay 

There is a darkness                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     There are scars, tears and hurt                                                                                                          
Pain in the desert  

Peter Sagar