humanity – Page 12 – poems 2 die for

IN PRAISE OF SACRIFICE

IN PRAISE OF
SACRIFICE

people will
fight for truth
be nobly
martyred

but how much more
strongly, happily,
forcefully
fanatically

they will
fight for lies

the bigger the lie
the bigger the sacrifice

XCHANGE

XCHANGE

touch me feel me
see me love me
hear
me

I wan’t to spread
your wealth
across
the stars

be union and
be disintegration

want to expand you
horizontally vertically
along
every axis

you having
so much to give

so much
to receive

QUICKLY

QUICKLY

read this poem quickly
we have not much time

an nasteroid/comet/meteorite
is going to
hit this Earth tonight

but even before which
tensions on the planet ensure
the button will
get pressed

failing which a killer virus
has obviously escaped

and then one or two
of the world’s
super
volcanos
is primed to blow
fill the Earth with pyroclastic flow
toxic dust
blot out the sky, the Sun
so, read
this poem
have some fun

best thing to do now
quite frankly

SAD TO THINK

SAD TO THINK

can’t put
my finger on it

something seems
off

the wind feels odd
the TV
looks wrong

everyone I hear
feels that
the truth
must be hidden
cannot be
uttered at
all costs

the plot
has been lost
the record stuck

and those who
deny what we see with
our own
eyes

are believed

cannot put my
finger on it

seems like
the beginning of the end

we had
our run, had our time

self-destruct is
now on
override

sad to think what
we might have become
could have been

VICTORY

VICTORY

You were screening
a film about your victory

when news
of your defeat, your
complete defeat came

sudden consternation
in the projection box
reels were exchanged
and that
film replaced

by one so different,
one that dealt
with the death of hubris,
end of arrogance

and a way that slowly,
painfully
the sins and crimes

might be
confessed before humanity;
some redemption take place.

EYES

eyes blue
green brown

saw so much
too little

some
of late
closed forever

and those
that closed them
some so
long

before their time
cannot believe but
that the Earth the Sky
the stars in the Heavens
cry out
for justice

whilst vengeance, brutal
and total vengeance

is the only
thought in my sickened mind

TERRITORY

TERRITORY

it puts us
in bizarre territory

the death throes
of a theocracy

when it calls upon
the angels
to save from
economic disaster
military
defeat

when they themselves
have the god button

and think
of humanity
as just
so much meat

DID NOT

I did not expect
the darkness
to have
such surveillance

I did not think
it capable

of flying in
at supersonic speeds

I did not think it would
smudge, alter,
shift and change
words
in the language

pull a veil
of incomprehension
over everything
we see.

FLIES

the Talmud says
the saving of a life
is the saving.
of a world, of
a universe
entire

I would not
go so fat

but
somehow, suddenly

the stars in the firmament
are going out
one by one

the stars
in our flags
dying like flies

SPACE

what is different
about this space?

its peaks, its valleys

white
noise, grey silence

the windows and doors
with their secret codes

(beg me, beg me
I may well tell you)

now you have read everything
every smidgen of text
visible or in-
visible

tell me what you have come
to comprehend

so far we
are from the grand muftis
and great principalities

together in collusion
syllable by syllable chipping away at
their stark foundations

sliding door moment for
those believing in change

contriving a space here
where we might

stockpile empathy
dole out kindness
dish to whom-
soever
is in dire need

shelter is needed
shelter is necessary

the song could
not be

clearer on this

come! Let me sing it for you,

then
(change in
tone

different key, switch in
pitch

and so let us
now adopt the pose
of silence

contemplate the world
(if any) beyond
this poem

this poem’s afterlife

so to speak
so to spreak

having this very moment
spoken space into existence.