Seeking Shelter
Magnitude in the news today in a country half a world away
Shifting sands, where to lay, nowhere to run and no safe bay
Ripple of chaos circles the fold from here to far off Bombay
Rich and poor, young and old, seeking shelter in the fray
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Levels the land no playing field, gives homeless right of way
Ink on paper no measure now with life the valuable cache
Fear in the dark but birds still sing, reason yet to pray
Rich and poor, young and old, seeking shelter in the fray
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Little boy lost, pup without a home, where to go or stray
Turn around and see no ground on which he use to play
Familiar gone in the dust in my eye and all to see is gray
Rich and poor, young and old, seeking shelter in the fray
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The youthful race to life on the run, just another day
Dressed in the latest, face painted on, real not on display
Turmoil takes the fragrant bouquet and renders it's decay
Rich and poor, young and old, seeking shelter in the fray
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No answers in the replay of scenes that now do portray
Reduced to ashes all that was, new rules to obey
My fragile heart now rubble like this crumbled land of clay
Rich and poor, young and old, seeking shelter in the fray
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