Ideology is still alive and
thriving and leading to
division–pulling us apart
and stretching the bonds
of cooperation that were
supposed to make this
world a better place.
Left and right,
right and left,
seem to be the stride of life
caught up in sides that
war on the street and fight
campaigns about issues that
concern us all and which
we all share in this world
of resources diminishing
Ideology stands proud between
people to hold back the working
together and the solutions that seem
as elusive as a thief escaping
in the fog of a starless night.
Ideology serves no one except those
who benefit from its pooling of
people and money into ventures that
ignore the ordinary plight of ordinary
people who live and scrape and survive
in their ordinary lives.
Left and right,
right and left,
religion, atheism,
socialist, capitalist,
causes and conflicts,
isms and schisms:
not about needs at all,
not about the person standing
in the line, fleeing, living
a life and seeking the happiness
that it seems only some deserve.
Ideology is alive but I wish it dead,
and bring to life community instead.
15/9/2020