Poetry – Creativity is our only Salvation – A poem for Charles Baudelaire.

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire – I wrote this poem in his memory.

Creativity is our only Salvation

 

Evolution set loose a set of rabid apes to terrorise the planet. Intelligent monkeys whose deviousness and ingenuity has been deployed to kill, plunder and coerce.

Yet, in our schizophrenic madness, we are capable of love, art, poetry and altruism.

If we could only learn to master our baser instincts and give full reign to our higher attributes we could create a paradise for all; one in which all living creatures would have their place.

I put my faith in creativity.

 

Creativity is our only Salvation

 

We have no hope

For we are brutes;

Savages with a lust

For cruelty and destruction.

We have no hope

For we would plunder

Rather than build,

Rape rather than love.

We have no hope

Because we would rather

Watch an act of cruelty

Than enjoy a scene of beauty.

We have no hope

For our instinct

Is always

Fear, hatred and retribution,

Rather than forgiveness

And a healing hand.

 

Creativity

Must be

Our only

Salvation.

 

Opher 4.6.2016

12 thoughts on “Poetry – Creativity is our only Salvation – A poem for Charles Baudelaire.”

  1. My question is, how does man KNOW he needs that creativity? Creativity is being stomped out all over the US. Music, art, metal shop… All THESE kinds of classes are being done away with here in favor of football, basketball, volleyball… That’s because they make money for the schools. But without that strong desire to create, math, science, the humanities suffer. People involved with the schools here are too ignorant to realize that. (Sorry.. One of MY soapboxes!)

    1. It’s the same here. They are narrowing the curriculum to remove all the ‘unnecessary’ creative subjects to hammer in literacy and numeracy for the international tables. We have become fodder for the exam machine. That’s not education. I’ll do a poem on it!
      But people know they need creativity. It’s a basic impulse. We are inquisitive and creative by nature. You can’t drum it out of us. We are fulfilled and calmed when we create.

      1. And THAT is exactly why I can’t not write. Doesn’t matter if what I write sucks or not, I’m just driven to do it! It makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something.

      2. Creativity, in all it’s forms, is what makes us human. If only all those fundamentalists and terrorist would get into painting, writing, dance or drama they might turn into nice people. If only Hitler had kept up the art!

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