If only…….

Poetry – We are at war!

We are at war!

We are at war!

At war with the elite

Who would ravage the land!

At war with inequality

Which robs us of our fairness!

At war with fake news

That robs us of the truth!

This is the war of reason

Not guns.

The war of ethics

Not weapons.

The war for the future of the world.

We are at war!

Never has so much been at stake!

We are rebelling

Against extinction!

Opher – 26.11.2019

Perhaps now the deniers who are witnessing the drying up of the Victoria Falls, the shrinking of ice-caps, heatwaves, floods and hurricanes, will start to wake up – no longer in thrall to the greed of Trump – for whom nothing matters except money.

The world is pivoting. It totters.

We should use our intelligence.

The wealthy will sell the planet for profit. They peddle fake news. Their greed and selfishness is endangering species after species and putting us in the firing line.

There is a war. It is a war fought with words and votes. It is a war we need to win.

This is the battle of the ballot box.

Forget Brexit. Think planet.

We Live, We Love, We Die.

We Live, We Love, We Die.

We Live, We Love, We Die

                In the debris,

                                In the rubble,

Underground,

                Or running for our lives.

We Live, We Love, We Die

                As statistics

                                In a paper,

In the war room

                As they plot.

We Live, We Love, We Die

                All there is,

                                A brief moment,

Clinging to existence

                Consigned to eternity.

Opher – 30.3.2022

Life is cheap. It means everything to us but it means nothing to them. It means nothing to the planners of war. It means nothing to eternity.

We cling to existence in the face of forever. We end up as statistics. That’s all.

Ultimately life just is ……… a collection of moments hovering in infinity.

The war rages in Ukraine, Yemen, Somalia and the rest. All around the world countries prepare for war, they build warships, bombers, fighters, tanks and submarines. They manufacture missiles and bombs. They stock nuclear devices.

They are preparing death. It is madness.