MAKING YOU OVER

Making you over
in their image
at a young age
to believe in their power
with an absence of love
yet unable to change,

Planting us by flowers
of those buried by war
we are only relieved
in a presence waking us
we wonder what we are
here for,

At this sun's hour
of breaking thunderous skies
we wait for rain
without any disguise
using a wondering voice
in a poet's refrain to be wise.