Where do I go if
I don’t like the world I’m in?

This world has not learned
a thing, for it is still full of wars,
and scary religious causes, and
militant right-wing lunacy
that strip humans of their
dignity and right to choose.

It is full of dislocation and
alienation and we thought
we were getting better
but then all the petty politics
and religion, and economic
rationalism, and populism
stepped in to systematically
tear it away like a corpse
stripped before an autopsy.

Where can I go if I can’t
stomach this shit no more?

Perhaps the only place is
inward, to what I believe
is right and true and not
the vile anti-person dogma
whose stench is like an
abattoir on a windy day.

Where shall I go?
Where shall I be?
Back to the mountain
from whence I came?

 

6/6/2023