We Saw Beyond Our Seeming

We Saw Beyond Our Seeming

We saw beyond our seeming
These days of bloodied screaming
Of children dying bloated
Out where lilies floated
Of men all noosed and dangling
Within the temples strangling
Our guilt gray fungus growing
We knew and died our knowing
Deafened and unwilling
We aided in the killing
And now our souls lie broken
Dry tablets without token.

--Maya Angelou