Interconnectedness.

Social comment narrative verse

Interconnectedness.

 

The internet can’t be controlled

by any form of government

Because it’s gained too strong a hold.

Which came about by accident.

 

Nobody can control the flow

 Although some governments still try

Of information to and fro

There is one simple reason why.

 

The common man has access to

What governments try to conceal

A system that’s completely new

Now people can safely reveal

 

The secrets of the powers that be.

The things we aren’t supposed to know

they can post anonymously

There’s nothing governments can do.

 

At last the people have a voice

 no government can suppress

The powers that be have little choice

 and in the future even less.

 

The internet is here to stay.

It’s up to us we must adjust.

WE can’t go back to yesterday

A world of mutual mistrust.

 

One thing we must appreciate.

Though information’s flowing free

It isn’t always accurate

We have to choose selectively.

 

What we accept what we reject

and draw our own conclusion.
I have good reason to suspect

more not less confusion.

 

The internet may prove to be

Either a blessing or a curse.

Though I believe quite honestly.
The internet won’t make things worse

 

Than when governments could decide

What people were allowed to know

To preserve the nations pride

They lied alike to friend and foe.

 

The internet has set us free

to find a different better way.

Though we will have to wait and see

What kind of price we have to pay.

 

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

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Reviews

[Jasmine]

very true... with extraordinary knowledge, opened up on such a vast scale comes intrinsic danger and invasion of privacy.

[Patrick Gerlits]

Poetry with a message.