Every
day I read the news with growing trepidation.
It’s
regression on a massive scale. The end of civilisation.
We’re
not punishing those that caused this mess with lies, with greed, with ego.
But
blaming folk who’ve nothing done and warring with nations we don’t know.
What
year is this? Who’s in control? Where is Lady Justice?
She’s
bound and gagged in a divan bed. Ransomed for the fame of her captress.
Of
equal weight (or so we’re told) to celebrities, diets and twerking.
The
blood on her sword is only her own so clearly, this system’s not working.
The
children that need us the most,
Tragically
fall through the ‘net
And
children are taken when good parents seek help and hysterical healthcare
objects.
Open
your eyes and ignore the damned press!
They have profits to make, don’t you see?
Horrors
that happen go unreported and affect us – that’s you - and it’s me.
I do not believe it is really so hard to lay aside neighbourly
spite
And
just keep an eye out, get involved and speak up if something just doesn’t seem
right.
Notice
the pensioned! They are people too
and their stories are going untold.
As
we focus on disposable incomes of youth and deny our own growing old.
I
don’t have the answers. I’m not the Messiah (or even a naughty boy),
I
am just one person, sick of the nonsense and sick of acting coy.
I’m
not asking for money, or a signed petition, or change in far flung lands.
I’m
saying your community needs you before it ends up in God-knows-whose
hands.
Get
involved. Take an interest. Speak up! Go out!
Disenfranchisement
is dead.
Earnestness
is the future!
And
without it?
Total
extinction instead.
