Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog
Our Modern World
One
concentration of wealth, power, and freedoms
in the hands of privileged classes,
fear mongering, the old ploy,
makes for easy control, brow-beat the masses.
Two
conform and obey, your patriotic duty,
ignore any protests, though justified,
condemn civil disobedience – all,
science, an enemy, facts so inconvenient.
condemn the discontented and suffering.
praise privilege, nepotism, and their cronies,
those who have stolen and murdered their way up,
our heroes, or arrived the ‘old-fashioned way’,
inherited from ancestors who stole and murdered
their way to the top of this dung heap.
you too can get there, you’re just in a slump.
don’t worry, your turn will come; they’ve said so.
it’s just a matter of time till you’re lovingly
welcomed to their lofty heights.
but only after you’ve devastated retiree pensions
and savings, swindled tax payers out of billions,
bankrupted local and national economies,
destroyed our human habitat…
Three
cockroaches will rejoice… good riddance to this
infestation of an otherwise beautiful world.
perhaps they won’t contaminate their own home
and food supply, that ephemeral layer of life on Earth,
I wonder if they’ll name it?
–LE
CynOp 
7 responses to “Our Modern World”
Liam, have you ever wished you’d been born in a simpler time? I know all of human history has been rife with bloodshed and war, but I’ve often wished I had been born around 1000 BC.
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Yes, I have flirted with the idea, to be born into the time of myth and legend, perhaps withness the elopement (abduction) of Hellen to start the Trojan war…; -)
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That would be interesting to see firsthand. For some weird reason, the Middle Ages appeals to me. Being a witch piques my interest, and I think the 1000’s were before witches fell into disfavor, so I’d probably be safe on that count. Also, I think it was before the bubonic plague. 😆
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You are right on both counts. What would later be known as witches were ‘wise-women’ and pagan priestesses… You’d probably have had our own temple… 😊
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Sigh…I was born too late. I would have enjoyed having my own temple. Before it turned white, I had red hair, long and curly. Still have my green eyes. I would have made a stunning wise-woman. 😆
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Agreed, but you’d probably more likely been the priestess with the red hair and later the wise-woman with white, but by then, you’d probably be living in a hermitage deep in a foreboding forest…; -)~
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Sounds about right…😉
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