Saturday, 11 May 2013

Of Dire Waters


Glowing cinders smolder, flamed by scorched justice
Skeletal remains consumed
Barren, charred, humanity's ebbing breath
Policnomic spores have sown the greeds upon the last parchment,
creeds that forever seal off the right of objection
Nothing escapes bylaws created with stealth
Universal laws are dashed down by wealth
The commoner is in fear for itself
Earth has become a chattel

Sense, in rustled fray has become senseless,
a swirling eddie in searing winds
Deception devoid of all reasoning, reigns
All fairness a heavily pruned tree
Logic has become teased to confusion
Not a life may grow of itself,
Biologically harmful to the environment all, where there be no profit

Heart and breath have become dust and invalid
The banker owns the squares
For if the world were flat it would be a monopoly board

Humanity is corralled, its mass a clutter on realestate
All goodness undone
Its burgeoning indignation surplus to requirements

"Who has drained the well? "

Betrayal has cut us deep, a fatal course
Tired of sacriledge, Earth's gift of salvation wains

"In whose palm conceals the blood of kindness? "

"Be, that with quickened heart and thundering din of fear and fate go we,
incessantly tormented by the din of deadly silence from an unyielding ear? "

Greed infects us as a plague 'neath a painted sky


Steve Matatahi


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