'fare ye well' kind friends
Click, tic, flick busy scrawling our life’s away
We’re freaking-out when, tell us when
Hating, whoever they label as a villain
Forgiving those Magazine cover paint-brushed
Faultless…
Our capacity to verify black-eye lies
surrendered
Just as long as they feed us escapism
makeups,
Rapists released after just a few weeks,
Child abusers given welfare houses
Barely a street from day-care centres,
War refugees vilified for burdening
A mirage economy,
A robbery murder in broad daylight
Just by our local corner shop
While we’re told it’s in our interest
Local police stations, should
Be, obsolete…
Millionaire prime minister’s
That can’t explain how they made
All that campaigning money
Yet, they’re MI6 approved to run
A country’s beggared treasury…
While a decrepit president, mumbles
Lies and enables his sons drug abuse
While funding six billion-dollar wars…
Bombarded daily by evermore extravagant
Absurdities
We lack the will or resolve to question it all
News as our breakfast and supper fallacies
Veracity
Deemed an archaic impossibility
thrown out with morality’s water,
History
Cancelled outright, warped &
twisted by reactionary policies
so we’re collectively free to cyclically
repeat , same
generationally inherited, mistakes…
It used to be, every time
A war started somewhere
in the world
Our ‘leaders’ would collectively
talk about, Peace envoys
Now
it’s all taking sides and threats
Sanctions and funding's galore…
‘Theory of evolution’
May have used a wrong word
Too assumptively humanistic
‘Theory of inversion’
Seems to fit humanity’s antics
much better! i think…
© L. B. Mek
October 2023
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we implore you great god of the final bug !
where did I mention a deity
... or a bug
or greatness?
lol
you see what you see, dear Poet
oh seer of those, to be seen universal fragrances
and the has-been's, maybe one day
we may all see, as well as you can see in the dark...
(just having fun, thank you!)
The atrocities of life!! "click, tic, flic"---this is so, to your face!!!The struggles of life!! Lies we accept as a way to escape. So much going on; torture; rape!
Sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization....so much we fail to see! Because it's normalized....as... It is, what it is!
We're so used to the lies....and the ridiculous ways of life that we fail to question it all. So we keep doing the same things over and over again....expecting a different result.
Our leaders don't talk anymore! They're occupied making sure to keep us in the dark....to treat us like puppets with no minds.
In looking back, at each path taken, every decision, will we be proud?....will it be "all we ever wanted?" or did we just cowered out?
Bombarded much? DAMN!!
THIS SONG/VIDEO....MY GOD!!!
By the way, doesn't he look a little like Teddy Swims? 😳
I love your mind!!
he does, a bit taller
and their voices have that similar power dynamic I think
why did I never notice until you mentioned it, lol
'Bombarded much?'
Indeed my wise Poet!!!
Amen! To all that your words conveyed here
thank you!
I'm in love with your mind and all it represents
I have often questioned is it just more visible with media in every place and time, or are we more deadened to it with its constant exposure, are we more corrupt due to a change in societal morals,? Regardless we have not evolved in the right direction it seems devolution and yes inversion. Loved the lines :
"Our capacity to verify black-eye lies
surrendered
Just as long as they feed us escapism
makeups,"
Do we throw our hands in the air saying, nothing can be done? Or do we become numb and ignore everything outside of ourselves? It's a bloody well good time for a social revolution, where values are put toward helping not hurting others.
maybe, my cherished friend
or maybe it's a more personal accountability
we need to find a path to..
collective outrage has been and wasted
too many times already
..maybe
(thank you!)
Mind bending and maddening as is the reaction to the states of affaires! ‘Evolution of inversion’ I’m afraid could be a thing. I’m happy that you don’t simplify the turmoil of it all…Well done as always…lovin’ the video too-
I'm just grateful like most of us here at mps
we have our beloved poesy as a release outlet
I can't fathom how everyone else deals
with the constant chaos that is life..?
still, we can but witness and do our part
it's all too much for us
to try and assume responsibility for, i think
Thank you! my poet sister
I never thought I'd truly say the words gone bonkers but it has. And your poem is a testament to it, only you can write like this Mek ❤️ I'm really in a state of what next? Stay safe in London I've already heard there's a bit of trouble. Big hugs 🤗
you know our beloved London
tell me a time when there wasn't 'a bit of trouble'
around those narrow corners....
lol
but that merciful universe
is keeping me safe from the worst of it
thankfully!🙏🏽
hope you n yours had a lovely weekend
and will have a peaceful week ahead
(my way is to do this little scribbles
let it all out, then forget as best I can
only way I can function and survive..)
thank you! cherished Poetess
'And is it bad.. that I go a bit mad when I hear everyones "that's crazy" and "oh, yeahs"... "Yeah, you're right" but keep on playing along.. where the f.. is our fight? We are just one voice - but together we're strong.
It seems by design these
like-minds are scattered through the globe making it harder to find - as if stars sprinkled in the skies - only grouping together the shallow minds...'
Most things "aren't real" or are hard to believe by so many until they experience it first hand.
Is it from the constant need for instant gratification that emotion has been completely sucked out?
When is it enough? What will it take for people to see the bottomless pit we continuously dig ourselves in just by being what we aren't?
So many are "all for it" but if a call comes in, saying 'drop everything, we need you to help put an end to this'
How many could so easily detach?
Thanks for sharing this one's a soul stirrer
divide and conquer, oldest tactic there is!
so they spew that segregating propaganda
their tannoy news portals bombarding
with so much chaotic misinformation
we can no longer find any threads of truth..
(look at how blatantly the Gaza invasion
was staged as a reactionary act?
6 billion 'given' to Iran in some random
prisoner exchange
all of a sudden, Palestine militants
have a ground force built up
that CIA and mossad had no clue about.. 🙄
a flutter of attacks, with no warnings?
with outdoor concerts being staged
right on the borders?
harrowing and vile images
of cruel barbaric Palestine militants
that every news source has access to
within second, all edited zoomed-in
perfectly angled
then every time we go to YouTube
its running a public opinion advert campaign
reversing a century of sympathy
for the Palestine cause..
and ermm this all 'magically'
came about at the same time, within days
no years of planning, just random events...🙄
lol
ok sure,
now cross check that with how police
handle a few teenagers 'mob' looting
a handful of stores...
lmao
what to do!?
so we turn on each other, like they want us to do
or hide within the greater herded majorities
try to act the part, while choosing to stay
ignorant, because it's all too overwhelming
be design
(just look at search engines, all the education
anyone can ever need, right there
yet how many generations are drowning in
school fees..?)
I just hope they know what they're doing
because they'll be the ones who will reap
whatever's left of us...
we just do what we can and try to stay
sane for as long as we can...🤷♂️😂🍻😎
'we just do what we can and try to stay
sane for as long as we can...'
Seems like that's the golden ticket lol
It reminds me of Ch 68 in Tao Te Ching - about warriors, violence, etc.
'A warrior who revels in violence and brutality is an abomination'
;His narrow-minded preference for martial solutions will make him equally narrow-minded in battle'
'Excellent leaders put their own interests aside, work for a common good together with their people'
Like, it almost makes too much sense to all just f'n get along right? Like it would be way too easy. So they keep up this charade and because 'it's what we've always done' no one has the capacity to expand their narrow perspective. It's sad and disgusting and frankly, I'm pissed I was born to have to live through it amongst a bunch of 'yea, me too' parrots.
Thanks again for sharing! I appreciate your passion
Great flow and use of language.
thank you, kind Poet
Broken. This world. Controlled by broken systems and peace is held by dollars.. you explained it well throughout the imagery journey dear poet.
Aah now don’t that feel better .. my mental muscle thanks you bigly Mek and truly .. N
I see your heart bleeding, I hear your soul weeping as you write this lament, the pain of it all becoming unbearable. Where do we go when logic and reason have fled. Perhaps, in the end, we will rise from the ashes. I can only hope for a better future for the people I love who will have to live it. You are here to remind us dearest friend, for if we do not acknowledge the pain, we never address it. Thank you!
Absolutely love this one!❤️❤️❤️ Powerful to the day the least.
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