Reaching out

L. B. Mek

 

 

Watching chaos, infiltrate and shackle

as pixels abuse our sanity

while we elect, those who choose divisiveness

knowing they’ll help us, unite

under that umbrella we yearn most, distractions

at any cost…

 

How, do we express our passion

to heal each other?

 

What can we offer to ease that fear

that’s robbed us 

of all that we deem, meaningfully believable? 

 

Why, must we even try?

 

Dear reader

escape, life’s endless poetry 

free yourself of empathy and consciousness

denounce questioning and hope, instead

choose: that ‘genius of the crowd’,

 

hide, hide, hide

 

never, reach out

leave it all for us fools

already trapped

 

you at least, be free

to choose

that easier path,

 

run, run, run

 

and never, turn back

onwards - blending in

belonging 

 

for now, even their facade 

of gratuitous self-gratification 

is despairingly, your only option

 

for self-preservation…

 

Escape, this future we’re mapping

where words are naught

but bows and arrows 

in a world of nuclear handguns 

 

and their all consuming 

mass slavery

of our actual, mind’s;

 

we’ll wage our futile resistance 

you, make the best of your life

 

we’ll all meet, on the other side

where mercifully, hopefully 

freewill: will, no longer exist

 

and we won’t be burdened 

by the idiocy of that maniacal, herd

 

majority…!

 

 

© L. B. Mek

August 2021

  • Author: L. B. Mek (Offline Offline)
  • Published: August 27th, 2021 02:28
  • Comment from author about the poem: Where's Modernity's @ MeToo awareness of gender equality empowerment? When an entire nation of Afghanistan girls and ladies are being warned to stay home: 'for their own safety', would it be different if the land was Rich in oil, would we care more then? (Really, its crazy how Deafening, silence: can truly be...) Bukowski's 'Genius': ( https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-4332 )
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  • User favorite of this poem: HannahElisabeth.

Comments6

  • Doggerel Dave

    Temporary armistice, Mek: I'll vote for this one.
    Now don't call....

  • dusk arising

    No wonder the west and westerners are hated in so many places around the world. We invade, placate, tempt and corrupt with commercialism and the dollar. Abuse and kill in the name of peacekeepers and eventually run away, tail between legs from places we should never have tried to make 'do it our way'. Leaving behind what. Look at Afghanistan, Viet nam, and Laos (spin off of Viet nam) where USA dropped more tonnage of bombs than they dropped in WW2 and to this day thousands of innocent PEOPLE are being killed or maimed by unexploded cluster bombs. Who wins in the end.... why the mighty dollar of the armaments trade of course, war is a huge earner for capitalism... and a scar on the heart of humanity in the west.

    • L. B. Mek

      'and a scar on the heart of humanity in the west'
      profound, as ever Dusk
      I just watched, this callous news coverages
      with their 4k clarity zoomed-in, callous profiteering
      of a genuine humanitarian tragedy
      so I just couldn't help, feeling overwhelmed
      and these here feebly scribbled words
      of despairingly morose 'temporary' hopelessness
      is what inked out of me...
      (truly appreciate your insightful comments
      especially for widening the lens of the subject
      to include past and current, comparable stains
      on collective humanity's shamefully, cyclical: history)
      thank you!

    • Neville


      Hey L.B .. I wanna copy n paste each of the three reviews that hit this page before me ... No doubt there will be many more ................. brilliant poem .. tragic situation made worse by politicians who aww I aint even gonna go there .. N

      • L. B. Mek

        'who.... Aww, I ain't even gonna go there! ..'
        that's exactly how emptied-out I was feeling
        at the time I started writing, what's crazy
        is that as much as we try to block out the
        'madding crowd'
        all that chaos, seeps-in somehow and we're left
        bereft of hope, although mercifully - only momentarily...
        but still, this too: is a part of our complexity
        so I thought it would be worthwhile, to share..
        thank you! for succinctly phrasing the frustration I was feeling

      • flyingfish

        What a waste!

        • L. B. Mek

          beggars belief!?

        • myself and me

          The job of politician is to create hell and they are damn good at it. The most ironic fact is they will follow you to the other side too.

          • L. B. Mek

            What a Brilliant comment
            your devastatingly sarcastic wit
            was exquisitely deployed, to distil
            the barbaric irony of their wilful actions...
            thank you!

          • HannahElisabeth

            Huge fan of Bukowski and you nailed it with this one. I had to add this to my favs

            • L. B. Mek

              yes, his time for widespread recognition will come
              profound genius like his can't be denied, only delayed!
              I too am a fan, of his unapologetically brave veracity
              I don't think other writers can bare themselves
              more than he did, mark of a truly unique Poet
              (in my humble opinion)
              yes, we do get the unsavoury elements
              but, the treasures in his words: by Far
              justify, the investment of patience needed
              to read his work and siphon
              his Poetry's bequeathed: Wisdom.
              (thank you, for highlighting Bukowski
              in your comment, dear Poet
              and for your generously kind show of support)

              • HannahElisabeth

                Do you have a particular favorite work of his?

                I didn't think it possible to adore his insanely mad brilliance any more than I already did, until being gifted his collection on cats;

                "neither of us understands
                cathedrals or
                the man outside
                watering his
                lawn"

                Truly a unique poet indeed, and well worth the patience.

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