Inconvenient

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Inconvenient

The truth is inconvenient for most.

                The universe began by accident.

None of us are cursed.

No wonderful omnipresent host.

The truth is inconvenient or worse.

                There is no underlying reason

                                No wonderful afterlife.

Just endless oblivion – unrehearsed.

The truth is inconvenient for some.

                The planet is busy warming,

                                Nature is threatened;

                                                The worst is yet to come.

The truth is inconvenient for many.

                Greed is killing everything.

                                The lust for more is rampant.

Of hope – there isn’t any.

The truth is inconvenient for us all.

                A flawed species rampant

                                Full of lust for power

Vicious beyond recall.

The truth is inconvenient for the blind.

                Our history is littered

                                With the blood of the innocent.

It’s all we leave behind.

The truth needs to be learnt from

                If we are to build a future

                                And intelligently grow

Without the bullet or the bomb.

Opher – 14.8.2024

We all believe what we want to believe based on our upbringing, our education and our experience.

We rarely learn from the past and blithely go on making the same mistakes.

We gullibly swallow what we are fed.

Our whole world is an algorithm.

Our history is one of great violence, wars, senseless slaughter of wildlife, destruction and torture.

While there is much to admire it is overshadowed by the horrors we have exacted on each other and other living things.

We enjoy pain. We enjoy suffering. We love inflicting agony.

We are tribal, exhibiting insane group-think and adrenaline fuelled madness.

We love to believe conspiracies and close our minds to reality.

We see violence as the answer.

We always see violence as an answer.

The whole world is run by a handful of men who can never have enough. They leave misery in their wake.

We never learn from the past. Despite the demise of thousands of gods who have all come and gone we still believe ‘ours’ is real.

We still think the earth is flat and is the centre of the universe. We nonsensically believe in arks, veils and angels. Satan is real for many. We never learn.

We never see the way misogyny, racism and hatred is being used to gain power. We fail to see religion as a tribal tool for a minority to gain power and wealth.

The truth is inconvenient.

The greedy, inept and corrupt are counting on complacency!

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I’m taking no chances!! I’m voting tactically! I want the greedy, corrupt and useless out of government! Oust a greedy Tory!!

I Make War!!

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I Make War!!

I fire bullets.

                I fire rockets.

                                I drop bombs.

                                                Lives in my pockets.

I plan wars.

                I give orders.

                                I send troops

                                                Across borders.

I kill children.

                I rape girls.

                                I destroy.

                                                The game unfurls.

I’m the leader,

                I make rules,

                                Setting targets

                                                For the fools.

I make love.

                I make law.

                                Power and greed.

                                                I make war!

Opher – 31.3.2022

Without the goons there would be no war. The tyrants make the rules and direct the troops. The mindless zombies carry out the wishes. They shoot, they rape and kill. The despots treat us like fools.

Poetry – National Interests

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National Interests

National interests always come first –

Territory, oil or eliminating threat.

Enemies require neutralising.

We have to address the national debt.

Behind our leaders are financiers

Whose business interests run the game.

They pull the strings, rig elections

Use the media to point the blame.

They like wars; wars make them rich –

All that matters is power

Soldiers are expendable,

Cities lie in ruins,

As they turn the future sour.

Opher – 3.5.2022

It’s not national interests at all, is it? It’s the interests of a small elite.

War is a big money-maker.

They sell the arms. They sell the products to rebuild.

They knock it down and build it up. Win Win.

Their shares go mad. Their wealth increases.

Who cares about the people when there’s money to be made? Who cares about the death, destruction and maimed. Pawns in the game.

The stock market runs the show. Profit is the motive.

They are dicing with death.