from out of the city

from out of the city came words. small words.
words like lead pellets, ringing on armour, stinging on flesh
and carrying a message of rage and honor defended.

the prophet spoke in broken syntax, the facts spoke
for themselves in time and he was carried to the city square
to be stoned to death, in accordance with the law.

morning slid over the horizon as if on rails invisible,
and split the night like trinity. infinity seemed possible
except for the silence of the waking world, one eye open.

mourn the night and rise. rise to your feet and climb
the hill you always said you'd climb before the end of all things.
for it is upon you, even in the optimism of dawn.

mourn the night and rise. rise to your vision, rise!
the afterlife is not waiting for you, but you for it,
and the madness of martyrs may call it too soon.

mourn the night and rise. spread your bastard wings
and catch the feral winds that come on the sun's fire
to sweep away the night into small shadow piles in corners.

from out of the city came words. final words.
words like eden. gethsemane. golgotha. and then.
and then. and then, the silence. the violence of indifference. 

Is this your work or someone elses poem?

it would be trivial for you to copy a line and paste it into google to find out

Poems don't always get tons of recognition, that's a ridiculous response

But if this is yours, good poem.

some of the lines are from somewhere else.

only if you don't know how to use the internet

poem by William F. DeVault

How on earth does how you use the internet impact the popularity poems get? what kind of a response is that?

From the screen to the ring to the pen to the king

the idiocy of the users on this site really does continue to astonish me

you didn't answer the question.

oh ok. Cool poem.

your question is a non sequitur

Not really. It flows logically from the statement you said.

if you put text into a google search engine and hit enter, it will run a search for that text

if you wrap it in quotes, it will run a search for that text specifically

turns out if you do this for poems, it gives you the author

Some poems won't be on google if they're niche enough, or will be in a compilation of a bunch of them making it hard to find.

Not in this case. It works

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22from+out+of+the+city+came+words.+small+words%22&oq=%22from+out+of+the+city+came+words.+small+words%22

But op seems overly bitter over this

Perhaps they're looking for a conversation. It might be trivial for you to post the author's name as well given that you'd already posted the poem in the forums.

But then again, TICC