World Values

We are doomed by our complicity.

World Values

Take succour in retribution

for revenge in its raw

steel, sharp edged blades

can draw enough blood

so as to drown our race.

And drown we should

for such complacency.

We watch the rape and pillage,

the displacement of Rohingya

the subjugation of the Syrian peoples

by a despot

protected by Putin's despot regime.

We witness the creation of Armageddon

in North Korea

while our politicians talk in high tones

but whisper sweet nothings

as capitalist values rule

all of the weary waves

and death and austerity and hunger

and homelessness

are the truth.

 

16/09/17

Reviews

[DIVYA]

And one day we'll just fizzle away, still laughing, pathetic in our ignorance, losing the great chance because couldn't resist being fools

[John Alexander McFadyen]

That is indeed what I see happening. We delude ourselves that we have grown wiser, Did anyone apologise for persecuting those who said the earth was not flat? Yet we have learned nothing and are still constrained by that we can study and prove. Many thanks Divya.

[DIVYA]

You are welcome John.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

like AC/DC sung...."listen to the money talk"

values go out the window when there is enough green to go around.

love this.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Love AC/DC, shows my age! Many thank Jacob.