The Cycle
From the start line
We survey the options
On our journey around this cycle
We collect things of interest
Having completed several cycles
We start to leave things behind
Eventually we are carrying very few
Things of interest
As we cycle round we then begin to
Recover the things we dropped
As we continue around this cycle
Before we come to a shuddering halt
A Most Useful Tool
Opinions, opinions, opinions,
Yes we all have them
Disagreement is a positive thing
Disagreement is a healthy thing.
So boring would it be
If everyone was of one mind
So stale would society be
If everyone liked all the same things
So restricted would society be
Yes all are entitled to their own opinions
But not due to simple inherent fairness
No improvement would their be
Without discussion and opposing opinions
A Repositioning of the Boundaries of the Mind
Not to be torn down completely
This would lead to a liberally
Ambiguous belief in nothing and everything
But the boundaries of thought should be flexible
Gates should make the boundaries open to other possibilities
The high stone walls keep unchangeable convictions held in permanently.
Crossroads
Decisions, contemplations, selections.
Take the left road?
Take the right road?
Continue forward?
Go back from where you started
No you can’t do that
The traffic lights all
Stuck on green and red
Indecision rules here
Fatal accident imminent
Cynical Resignation
That’s it, that’s definitely it
No more progress
No more sensibility
No more reason
The destruction, inequality
Senselessness will continue
Frowns and smirks result from
Mention of world peace
Talk of destroying weapons
Dismissed as nonsense
A solider no more than a trained murderer
The tragic and pointless murder will never cease
That’s it indeed that is the way of humanity
The Most Silent and Deadly Serpent
This creature with its poisons venom
Awaits over the shoulder of those who have a
Pig headed unwillingness to look facts in the face
For those who blindly refuse to recognise major problems
The serpent injects its red poison into your blood stream
Infecting the flesh, causing it to corrode, erode and dissolve.
Then the acid attacks the bones until it has consumed you
As the serpent licks its lips and wipes its mouth with a napkin
For those who do face up to problems
And whack them with a sledge hammer
This serpent is not to be feared, woe unto the ignorant.
Indifference
Another morning
Another day
With its dangers
Another 24 hours
Another period of
Disappointment
Another day of
Black events
In this place
Arbitrariness
Is my sovereign
A final shrug of
The shoulders before
Retiring to bed
Paranoid Anxiety
Be careful what you say
Be careful where you tread
Be Careful not to offend
Censor yourself well
Did I insult them just now?
Do they think I am a bad person?
Should I ask that?
Have they judged me?
What are they thinking?.
They have given me some
Disapproving and disgusted glances
Maybe I am bad????
Obscene Works
Allow me to explain ladies and gentlemen
An obscene work is not that which some call heresy
No indeed, the most obscene work I have ever read
Was written by a sick evil long winded scoundrel
The author of such a work is clearly mentally insane
Well is it wrong to simply denounce inequality?
Only to be labelled a moaning loony lefty
I think not, how dare anyone question the
Devine rights of all who walk this earth
How dare anyone condemn mans natural
Instincts as sins
He who writes about the industrial slaughter
Of individuals as if he is writing about his holidays
Is most certainly inherently evil
I simply do not comprehend such abhorrent notions of purity
Indeed he who writes of systematic slaughter
As if he is stacking shelves is certainly writing something obscene
But the people who write of equality,
Liberation of humanity in all its forms, total collective
Acceptance and community collaboration
Certainly do not write obscene works
They write of the very heart of the human condition
More than any man wearing a black suit and a white collar
Whom talks of purification and virtue
Indeed the very text from which he preaches is absence
It is these individuals who should be cast out of society
The maxim “do and say what feels natural” should reign supreme.
Liam Whetstone 