NSA Spying

In honor of the Feb 11 protests against NSA spying on citizens, here is the poem “The Spark” Please share this around

The Spark

Hopeful as a lighthouse beacon

On a hurricane killer sea

Vengeful like a Kansas tornado

On an August night seethe

Powerful as an earthquake

In the city of Angels on mid-summers eve

Forever too small

For the big boys to see

Angry as a rap riot

Pounding out deeds

Sounds like Led Zeppelin and Cinderella

Or a Beethoven symphony

It’s on the breath of old farmers, children, and artists on fire

It’s in the passion of sailors just back from the sea

Tonight it sleeps with you and I

In spite of homeland security

Has coffee every morning

With code breakers hacking Windows XP

Stayed with the Jews at Masada

And the Lakota at Wounded Knee

Spends a lot of time in intifada city

Where it never dies

But often is the last gasp of those who are free

It can break the heavy chains of God

Keeps dying men alive

Lets blind men see

When Uncle Sam has a policeman in every pocket

And he shows us what to see on the wide screen TV

I’ll still see the spark in you

And you’ll still see the spark in me

Sometimes it’s the only survivor

When come packing the dogs of tyranny

Spark is the light in the wise mans eye

When he says ‘If I didn’t believe in love,

I wouldn’t believe’

Dewey Dirks