The loss of Southern Sons - Execution

Today,
wakes to a red dawn punished
and sprayed in the blood of repentance,
compassion had begged in the
before, days turned minutes,
eternity now cradles repented
sons of the Southern Cross

They were more than death,
with courage they leave us
hope erased from eyes
United over oceans and
long confused with desperation,
the silence of the fall
echoes across the Never Never
they are no more or less,
cloaked in a mantle of darkness,
far from our red dusted roads

and silently still
this mourning rains with
mute cries bled from two families,
agonized with the same torture
In the clarification of shocking
reality, eyes gaped silence
this grimace of horrified truth moves all
they have taken lost sons found
whole again in confession and prayer

In this act, the numb
cold hand of death
touches us all

evermore cloaks their eyes
as ours are opened with truth
and to this new world bereft
of the gift of compassion

Blown loose from the world,
they asked for the boon of life
pleas from the world were,
Denied clemency !
Denied !
Denied mercy !
Denied !

the empty soul of a foreign despot
raised the paper fist of a mute king,
a retribution of bullets severed
all the ties that bind

The shattering of mothers hearts
kills the light of the sun,
they are forced into infinity
this deed cant be undone

Outrageous power hangs
above our heads,
another world
foreign to true liberty

Sons of the southern cross
rest in the long sleep,
within the grace of home
their souls will find peace

As eternity kisses their lips
and the lilies begin to weep,
know they are there waiting
for us to join them in sleep

RIP - AC and MS 29th April 2015