Nineteen Fourteen
It is twenty twenty two
But in Ukraine
It is nineteen fourteen.
Russia has unleashed
A reign of terror
Like we have rarely seen.
In Chechnya and Syria
They practiced
Their Evil art.
Firing shells and missiles
To blow
The cities apart.
They are digging trenches
One again
In European cities civilisation
Is down the drain.
Putin is gaily singing
Death’s refrain.
It is twenty twenty two
But in Ukraine
It is nineteen fourteen.
Russia has unleashed
A reign of terror
Like we have rarely seen.
Opher 22.4.2022
We like to think of ourselves as civilised – but we’re not.
We like to think we are intelligent – but we’re not.
We like to think that human civilisation has become advanced – but it hasn’t.
We like to think we have become wise and sophisticated – but we haven’t.
We’re still the same aggressive, violent, stupid, greedy, paranoid apes we’ve always been. We’re still the short-sighted idiots who fight.
Everything is a thin veneer.