Standing on the Brink

Standing on the Brink

Standing on the brink,

                Forsaking unity,

                                Staring down a precipice of hate

While they stoke up the fear.

                                The fascist playbook

                Open at the populist page

                                Is seeking to enrage

Is that not clear?

                Not perfectly clear?

Those who seek compassion,

                Who tell the truth,

                                Are side-lined and thought weak

As we lurch towards the right.

                Fear of foreigners

                                A crisis of identity

                                                A surge towards nationalism

To keep our borders tight.

                For might is right!

Right?

And we lose our humanity

                As we build our walls

                                To keep out the strangers

No matter their need.

                No understanding

                                Of their terrible dilemma

                                                Of the wars, the drought

The babies to feed.

                Living in the jaws of greed.

Agreed?

In a sane world

                We’d address the problems,

                                Work together

To find a solution.

                But not in selfish times,

                                Littered with our crimes,

We turn blind eyes.

                No resolution.

No caring revolution.

Pull up the drawbridge,

                Man the fortress.

                                Repel all boarders.

Even women and babies.

                Economic migrants!

                                They have no claim!

Send them back to suffer

                With no maybe’s!

Certainly no maybe’s.

We care for our own!

                Charity starts at home!

                                So many of our own in need!

And the real criminals succeed!

                For in truth

                                It’s the same robber barons

Robbing us as robbing them.

                With their twisted creed!

A callous breed!

Inequality and greed

                Are the root

                                Of this entire situation;

Misery in their wake.

                As the arrogant elite

                                Feed off the masses,

Creating poverty and war

                While we break.

And in the heat we bake.

Opher – 29.6.2024

I’m sitting here thinking about the election of Trump and growing support for greedy, selfish, lying right-wing fascists all around the world. This hypocritical, phony religious brainwashing, deployed to create a separate cultural identity, this hatred of foreigners, overt racism and callousness.

What is happening?

The world is a mess with wars and global warming, mass poverty and environmental catastrophe. The wealthy circle like sharks in a feeding frenzy, stuffing themselves on the carcass of humanity.

They don’t care.

Religion is an excuse. Always an excuse.

The wealthy love chaos and crisis. They love poverty. They can exploit, divide and profit.

Follow the money. It’s flowing into the pockets of Trump, Farage, Cameron, Sunak, May, Johnson and a hundred other fascist leaders.

When will we start working together to create solutions?

No more walls, tax loopholes and secret accounts. No more selfish, greedy, lying conmen masquerading as caring champions of the people.

Enough is more than enough.