Trauma
Penetrating brains
Tiny tendrils
Of invisible roots.
Establishing a network
Of fear
To be set in concrete;
A mesh of terror
Frozen
Into circuitry
A compacted image
Of horror
That can never go away.
Every explosion,
Every death,
Every word,
Spurt of blood,
An electric shock
Searing minds
Forever.
Opher – 3.3.2022
Another generation traumatised by war. Images, thoughts and sounds locked inside minds, surfacing as vividly as in the instant they were formed.
War, the destroyer of sanity.
The Savagery
The savagery man is capable of
When he believes his cause to be just.
There is no end to his barbarity
When devoured by this lust.
His arrogance breeds belligerence
That leads all the way to war.
His intolerance destroys empathy
To shake morality to the core.
All it takes is outrage,
Religious fanaticism or political zeal.
A charismatic leader’s inspiration
Sparking the reason to kill.
Placing nails inside a bomb.
Slicing off heads with a knife.
Massacring the innocent.
Rewarded with paradise or a child wife.
All in the name of someone’s god
Or a fanatical leader.
Become a torturer
Or propaganda breeder.
It does not take much
To release the savage hate.
A traumatic death
Or promise of a better fate.
Opher – 18.5.2021
I was watching the hatred being stirred up in the Middle East as the Israelis and Palestinians clash.
The rockets soar and the guns crash.
The martyred are used to enrage.
Years and years of humiliations, degradation and abuse.
The evil scum of Hamas harvest that hate and hone it into a weapon. The fanatical Jews treat the Palestinians as sub-humans and seek to kick them out.
Illegal settlements, rocks, knifings and bombs.
What a senseless world we create for ourselves. Rationality goes out the window.
The more we see of this repulsive regime the worse it seems. Repression, oppression, gross inequality, propaganda, lies, violence and genocide. It’s brutal.
Hopefully Ukraine will come back to bite him!
We Have War
We have love.
We have art.
We have music,
Architecture,
Literature
And dance.
We have war.
There’s the spirit.
There’s the sea,
The sun
And nature’s
Poetry.
There’s war.
We have life,
Philosophy,
Wonder and awe,
Guiding us
To what life’s for.
Then we have war.
Opher – 31.3.2022
Mankind is capable of great things yet while we have war it all counts for nothing.
There is violence, there is hatred and there is war.
War negates everything.
We build things up, nurture and create and war reduces it to nothing.
Death, rape, trauma and agony. War and violence is the greatest flaw in our nature. It feeds on greed and the lust for power.
All Around the World
All around the world
There are mindless men in uniform
With guns, helmets and body armour.
Trained not to think.
They no longer have minds.
They do as they are told.
All around the world
There are arrogant men in power
Who command their minions to do their will.
They do not care about anything
The believe they deserve everything.
We do as we are told.
Opher – 11.6.2020
The various totalitarian states are propped up by mindless goons carrying out orders.
Some enjoy the power.
Some like to have the freedom to indulge their prejudices.
Some like the violence and licence to hurt or kill.
Mindless goons.
Mindless goons propping up tyrants.
Black Lives Matter
The same thing
Time after time
Injustice and violence
‘Dominate the jerks’
Says Trump.
One rule for you
And one rule for me
Complete lack
Of empathy
From the chump.
Life is cheap
If you are black
In America.
Where’s the leadership?
Where’s the compassion?
Where’s the country’s Cazar?
Hiding away in his bunker
With the lights out
Tweeting threats!
Devoid of answers.
Devoid of humanity.
Displaying no regrets!!
Opher 1.6.2020
How long does it take for a people to gain justice?
How many years?
Civil rights is not a gift to bestow; it is a right.
Human beings are all one species.
It is time we started to judge people by their character and not their colour.
Long overdue!!
Stupidity, Insanity and Terror
Intelligent people
Believing in invisible beings
Do terrible things
For dubious reasons.
Ordinary people
Joining tyrannical regimes
Are fully trained
To follow orders.
Military people
Following instructions
Dispense violence
In sterile basements.
Wealthy elites,
Powerful dictators
Employ mindless monkeys
To control the masses.
Mindless monkeys
Are trained
To overcome morality
Humanity and compassion.
The cycle of terror
Continues
As it benefits a few
And controls others.
Opher – 25.2.2022
I was thinking of the religious terrorism, political extremes and war. I was thinking about the powers that lurk behind it all.
All over the world the masses of people are controlled, fed lies and propaganda, exploited and used, abused, threatened and beaten.
The system is self-perpetuating. A powerful, wealthy elite ensure that the right people are elected, the right propaganda is issued and back it up with violence.
Protest is crushed.
Faceless minions are dispensed to create ‘law and order’ and maintain the status quo.
The masses are persuaded to vote for their own jailers.
The elite is maintained. All the wealth flows into their coffers. The people are given just enough to stop them waking up from the thrall, to stop them rioting.
The faceless elite ensure that Putin, Trump, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Modi, Johnson and Orban are put in place.
A force of minions are employed to suppress the people. These zombies are trained to follow orders, put aside their own feelings and shoot their own people. The more psychotic are trained as torturers.
They are called soldiers, police, security guards, secret police and peace keepers. Without them the system doesn’t work.
Ruining Tomorrow
Taking land
With blood and terror
Tanks and missiles
Putin’s error.
World watches
Disbelief and horror
Destroying today
Ruining tomorrow!
Opher 25.2.2022
Will the world all come together to condemn this horror or will certain nations just shake their heads or watch with glee?
Is violence and terror always going to be a part of humanities repertoire? Are we just cruel and psychotic?
Every now and again, when I get angry at war and the leaders who waste young lives, I play some Neil Young. Ohio was a battle cry.
We’re thinking of you Ukraine!!
War.
Down the ages,
Every race,
Every nation,
Every tribe,
Has fought,
Waged war,
And died.
History littered
With forts,
Castles
And citadels.
Graveyards
Crammed
With crosses
And tombs.
Nations bled dry
By cost
Loss
And defence.
Cities burnt,
Pillaged,
Flattened
And destroyed.
People tortured,
Maimed,
Starved
And traumatised.
Madness from a genetic flaw.
Opher 22.1.2022
There is no hope for us as a species. We are all imbued with this lust for violence, this yearning for power and greed for more.
Instead of love we are ensnared in hate, petty tribalism and a sense of superiority. We have to impose our views on others.
There is no hope.
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