Poetry – Creativity is our only Salvation – A poem for 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
Choked up on this one…
Strong piece you have written here.
Cheers Myth – thank you. You give me energy.
🙏 Vibrant Energy is So healthy isn’t it Opher!? And it leads to a path of enthusiasm! Don’t forget to sing 🎶Happy Birthday🎶 to yourself Opher, to all your contributions and vital mistakes to becoming a better person in the world! All that really matters is one person at a time… In their own right, in their own living, in their very own song and dance of who they are! Open your gift of words Widely for the world Opher!☀️🙌 … it’s back to lunch for me…
I live by packing as much into each second as I can Myth. The universe is a wondrous place to visit!