A Mockingbird's Cause for Lament Late Friday Night

One more reason

To feel forlorn

These days is that

We lack recourse

To blame or beseech

Anyone but ourselves

For our failings

In days gone by there was

A vengeful God to rail against

For the plagues visited upon

The Nations of Israel and Islam

All equally attributable

To a higher power

But now we are forsaken
As we hurtle towards a doom

All of our own making

Devoid of even the

Flimsy power of prayer

To halt its advance

Ask not for whom the mockingbird tweets
He tweets for us all night long
Tirelessly with his song