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Why Did I Laugh Yesterday
by John Herlihy → (All Poetry by John Herlihy)
Thursday, February 22, 2018    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Dedicated to the innocent victims in Gupta, Syria


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Why Did I Laugh Yesterday
By John Herlihy

Why did I laugh yesterday,
With the world drowned in sorrow?
What gives me the right,
As turmoil and death greet the morrow?

How could I be happy,
When little children suffer fears?
How could I ever feel content,
With cruelty causing a flood of tears?

How could I end up smiling,
beaming the long night through?
When governments rob their citizens
Of any decency they ever knew?

Who brought me here to the brink,
Raising the question who may care?
Visions of misery every time I blink,
No one ready such horror to spare.

Today I will consider before I laugh,
The carnage runs red rivers of blood.
My ravaged soul now broken in half,
Unable to hold back this raging flood.

In fact, I may never truly laugh again,
If laughter mingles with the despair.
Who will not always remember when
The world broke down beyond repair.
 

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 Reviews of "Why Did I Laugh Yesterday"
Reviewed by Susanne Leist
Reviewed on February 25, 2018
You will laugh again and enjoy life to the fullest for the human heart repairs itself even after it has been battered and broken.

Reviewed on February 25, 2018
Your heartfelt words hit home!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on February 23, 2018
YOUR WORDS PRICK MY HEART AS THUS THEY SHOULD. FOR THOUGH INNOCENT DEATH...ANYWHERE...IS A SHADOW ONE DISDAINS, ONE DOES TRULY MARVEL AT THE UNITY OF PAIN WHICH GOD USES TO REVEAL AND CONDEMN THE ATROCITIES AND RESULTS OF EVIL IN POWER. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS SEARING ODE, JOHN. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 23, 2018
It is a real shame that we have our concerns about military weapons attacking innocence in our country overshadowing what is happening in Syria on the other side of the world.

It seems that evil power in the hands of the wealthy never stops creating genocide of one kind or another in countless places around the world. Believe it or not, so far the 21st century is benign compared to the 20th when at this time a world war was raging in Europe where millions of fine young men were slaughtering one another across no man's land.

And yet, parts of Syria have become no man's land, similar to Lebanon, and Bosnia in years' past. Places like this can come back from the dead once the evil has been removed. But all those dead innocents will no longer benefit from living there. What a shame. What a waste.

When will the international community convict Assad and his allies like Putin as the war criminals they are?

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on February 23, 2018
It's love and laughter that will save the world, but only if there's enough of it. So live, love, and laugh on.

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on February 23, 2018
we all will


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