Tick, Tock
Nanosecond’s that weep for a war
Lamented casualties
Propaganda’s trickery, awakening
Empathy in vultures
Tap, Tap
Politician microphone’s drums of war
Even for their own
They won’t forsake ego to remember
And mourn
Witness, what levels of cruelty we’re each
Capable of
When our humanity is corrupted n warped
By that fallacy of war
We, all
Progeny of mass murderers
In guise of defending their own
Insuring that artistry of butchering
Our, own
Never dulls or skips a generation
Kept ever-sharp in malignant DNA’s
That legacy of baleful disregard for life
Here children, Behold:
This be thy inheritance of monstrosity
A perpetually regressive, modernity
A regurgitation of tragic progressivity
Mutually annihilating nuclear weaponry
What cure can we ever hope for
to counter our, insane
All-consuming cancerous zeal
to hate our neighbours
With unhinged malice, overnight
We cry crimson for our dead children
While murdering our enemy’s children
Chanting that insidiously archaic line
‘All is fair in love and war’
Is this really all our evolution amounts to
Is there really no hope, no accountability
Is our democracy so impotently complicit
Will we never change?
© L. B. Mek
February 2023
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Unfortunately Mek with those who are supposedly leaders in our world it will stay the same. Good words.
Andy
'supposed, leaders'
says it all Andy, sad to contemplate
thank you, glad you could relate
Will we ever change? I hope so.
Amen!
As long as man believes in his superiority, holds himself to be right and others wrong, As long as poverty exists and inequality there will be war, crime, murder all self justified.
(thank you, my friend
please, forgive my rant below)
'as long, as...'
but cherished Poet
which, is a more straightforward
task, for us to tackle first
those listed causalities and excuses
for war
or attempting to eradicate, war
as a possibility, in and of itself...
what's crazy to me
is that, the very mention of euthanasia
has everyone agreeing to a oneness
an assumption, that the taking of life
is wrong, at a fundamental level
and yet, here we are
sanctioning mass euthanasia
every generation
without so much as a hesitation
that assumption, where war
is an inevitability of the human, condition
needs to be refuted, at every opportunity;
'as long, as'
Presidential hopefuls must, first
agree 'defence' budgets, before
they can be nominated by their party
insures
we shall never see an end to war
imagine
we're already wasting trillions
on space armies
before, we've discovered space travel
does that not say it all
for the projected future, those in power
envision for humanity...
...just so depressing
sadly, you win hands down .. some things just need to be said, don't they
oh Hyung
how I wish someone, worthy
who can be, heard
would say them, before
it's too late
as it always seems to be the case
...
I know one day justice will be found
The perfect world we read in Genesis creation will be real
When there will be no divisions , wars and discrimination
I love your work Mr LB you never disappoint
faith is a good anchor for hope
may your hope never wane, dear Poet
thank you! how generous you are
with your support and encouragement
may karma, repay you tenfold
Amen
Fantastic stuff and sadly change is like watching or waiting for it to go from light to dark, we see the slight hint but before you can blink it's happened!
Justice won't be seen, just looked back upon one day to say how ever did we live this way and the cycle will continue. To sleepwalk through existence and forgetting the many that walked before us..
Thanks for the inspirational thoughts.
'Justice
won't be seen, just looked back upon
one day'
I read and learn
oh wise and most cherished Poet
thank you!
(how very true, brother
oft, we step
into impossibility's realms, never noticing
when we crossed, fate's threshold)
we can but hope! 🙏
Dear friend, these very thoughts plague my morning walks. I can't help but I reflect on the inherent violence and cruelty that have plagued our species ever since we picked up a rock and used it for the first time to kill. We have invented more and better ways to kill each other but to what end. The most pointless act in the world is an act of war, for it accomplishes nothing. Perhaps we have even farther to go in our evolution to redeem ourselves, sadly in the wake of the pain and suffering we cause. This is BRILLIANT!
so true, wise Poet
I read, heed and sigh
yet
somehow, choose to fight
to keep my waning, hope
alive
somehow, someway
we'll, find a way
a Time n state of evolution
where murdering, each other
upon our battlefield's
of differences is deemed, a barbarism
we must eradicate, permanently
My very wise friend, I can't thank you enough for suggesting The Alchemist. It is so relatable; the omens, the levante wind, I couldn't help but reflect on my own journey of self discovery throughout life, and the path that led me to MPS. Our own personal journeys are so much more remarkable than we ever realize. I have found more books by Paulo Coelho at my library, and have just started The Devil And Miss Prym. I look forward to reading them all.
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