The Watchers

Watchers.

They watch.

From on

high.

From a

different 

realm.

They watch.

Eons 

pass 

and they

watch.

Generation 

after

generation 

they come.

Watching.

Seeing.

Noting.

Each 

epoch 

the same.

Leaders,

despots

followers.

Human 

nature 

reflects

the same.

Each epoch

the same.

On the 

edge.

Despotism 

 makes 

a run.

Always 

the same.

Each epoch.

Modernity.

Despotism, 

advanced

technology.

Bad juju.

Reviews

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

I agree with the message of this piece. History is often on repeat. We can't seem to learn much from its mistakes of the past. It's a somber piece of vinyl playing in a loop on a record player.

[John the Baptist]

The first part of the poem made me think of UFO's and some of the theories about them. As the work progressed, it seemed the theme was autocracy, which has increased in the world and poses a major problem for democratic countries. I can deal with ultrafast objects in the sky. Vladimir Putin, however, is something else.