If I think about it too much
I despair, and my care is
overwhelming, and I feel
yearning to help and resolve
when I can do nothing and
I am a statue that is not moving,
but sitting in a safe house with
everything and nothing when
in so many other places, the
world has fully gone to shit.

And I see the greed and indifference
that’s tied to suffering, and the following
of a creed that means so more than
people in need, more than humans on their
bleeding knees who scrape a living, needing
help when none is coming, and all this might
have been prevented if self-interested goverments
were the least bit moral and the faces of the
suffering ones adorned their impressive halIs,
and they had the foresight to see clearly
and understand what was coming and do
everything out of their civic duty to care.

All this I think about and despair,
and like a statue dressed as a fool,
I wish the world was a different
place, and the order of power was
not about control and wealth but
about seeking the good and relieving
suffering and building a future to share.

 

14/9/2023