From The Belly of the Beast

 From the Belly of the Beast

 

Once,

I stood strong and tall

atop America’s highest mountain peak.

Turning I faced Mecca toward the East,

to my eyes came this vision of a holocaust

that brought me to my knees.

Touching the very depth’s of my soul,

I saw the American Armada’s storming the seven seas.

Hear my voice ring, for truth and freedom for the children.

To every nation’s mountain peaks

From the depth’s of the belly of the beast.