Sunset
fire over the city,
not knowing
how many more will ignite,
they lit martyr fuses
sleeping amongst us,
how could we have found
the underground deviates,
we are the land of the free
now burning,
sunrise finding angry mobs
wanting revenge....
© Stephen Williams 2010
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Stephen Jarrell Williams has been called ‘The Poet of Doom’, ‘A Voice in the Wilderness’ and ‘A Minstrel for Love’. He was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and his parents are native Texans. He has lived most of his life in California. His poetry has appeared in Liquid Imagination, Blue Collar Review, Rusty Truck, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and Scifaikuest, amongst other publications.
