Still More Serious Thoughts

Pathway To Hell

Revenge is in the air
Punishment for a hostile act that kills
Nothing will be allowed to stand in the way
Of your revenge
Every foe must go
Wipe the slate clean
Civilians are no problem
They are part of the inevitable nemesis
Children too,
Thousands in number
For they are placed by destiny on the other side
Right is might
In this war to bring justice to the chosen
For somewhere amidst all that nameless humanity
The planners of your demise are hiding
So
Blast their hidden sanctuary into non existence
No matter whom you kill
See
The damage that task causes
Amidst the carnage
Dwelling places turned into shapeless rubble
Countless streets with no name mired with wreckage
Yet still the bombs rain down
Deadly memos of hatred without end
Weapons of mass destruction
Yes
Death has no respite here
It has no morality of spirit
And taps on the shoulders of so many innocents
Even the journalists are dying
Doctors too are among the many dead
So walk with me in your mind these troubled alleyways
Step gingerly to avoid the fallen
Or the shattered dreams turned into debris
But do not dwell there
For whatever street you choose
Where e’re you walk
Will be a pathway to Hell

Love In Your Heart

So
You want to face the music
Meet your destiny in this troubled world
With dignity and integrity
So much will depend on what your mind tells you
Are you surrounded by enemies?
Are the people you meet potential foes
Or can you trust them as friends?
Is there a threat from humans who are different?
Muslims? Jews? Indigenous folk? Immigrants?
Is there a place in your mind for strangers?
Or are you uneasy with them and governed by fear?
So often lately there is a time in human lifetimes
When danger seems menacingly to threaten
It is happening now
All around you you see the warning signals
Generated by the false versions of reality
Cultivated by Herculean truth stealers
For whom adversaries mean status and power
And profitable weapons to manufacture
Awareness of this folly however is so important
Vital indeed for the survival of the human race
Gather around then you victims of engineered distrust
You fodder for corporate missionaries of hate
Turn away from derived animosity
Reject the fables of menace
Spurn the orchestrated lies
Perpetrated by the contaminated media
Controlled by leaders with omnipotent single mindedness
Turn your thoughts to positive hope
To a future devoid of manufactured antipathy
Free of unfounded hatred
And survive with love in your heart

On An Unnamed War

So
You are fighting terrorists to the death
Ending their existence
Waging a war that will not end until victory comes
But are children terrorists?
You are killing them in their thousands
Do you find terrorists among the disabled elderly?
You are killing them in their thousands
Are mothers terrorists?
You are killing them in their thousands
Are doctors and journalists terrorists?
Many many of them are dying by your hand
Homes are blasted out of existence by your bombs
Rubble litters endless streets with no name
For the sake of humanity stop now
Evil comes to him who evil does
Your slate is not clean but blighted
Nowhere in the battle you wage can justice be sighted
Guilty deeds you constantly perform
History will tell your story
It will flow through the halls of infamy
Like an icy wind
The moving finger of time
Will write your name on the walls
Of houses of ill repute
Absolution will be a flimsy dream in your sleep
And never a reality
For that is the way of war
It is always a symptom and never a solution
Forever a nightmare never a serenity
So march on soldiers of shame
On your route to eternal damnation
There you will be welcomed by the angels of death
Who will sing you the dirge you deserve
Amidst the wreckage of other people’s yearning
The time for change is here
So get to it now
And find your own salvation in peace

We Will Not Be Silent

The warnings are out
The doers of dark deeds hold the floor
Stand tall with their stentorian voices echoing everywhere
Hold your tongues you little people they proclaim
You insignificant pawns in the chess game of life
You puny dwarfs in the realm of giants
Be voiceless and listen
Learn the authorised version of truth from those in power
Absorb the sanctioned reality like obedient vassals
Negativity is not your privilege
Fault-finding will not be tolerated
You must obey and hold your tongue
As the saying goes
Verbal intrusion into subjects classified
Will incur public contempt, ridicule and penalty
Legal retribution to the highest level of the law
Punishment including the pain of solitary confinement
Contradictory beliefs will not be accepted
Endorsed and publicly ratified reality
Must, they repeat must, be celebrated in everything you do
So that is where we are now
That is the very nature of the choice we do not have
No disobedience, no critical words, no corrective dissent
Only compliance with the imposed accepted norm
No one must dare to speak to the contrary
Yet can there not be an error at some time in officialdom?
Is perfection a universal outcome always?
Is there not scope for wrong doing in every society?
Is misreckoning or misdeed not possible at some time?
And does felony triumph when good men do nothing?
Will our destiny be decided by what we do not do?
Well now, heed this you authoritarian behemoths
We have seen today things you have done
That clash with behaviour known as virtue
That harm people or vital institutions mercilessly
Causing poverty, injury or even death for innocents
Your deeds are causing pain in the world around us
So trust me: we will not be silent

A Last Hope

Aha!
Thus you wage your war
Your enemy is nothing but a category of hate
An entity without mortal needs
Just a target for you the righteous
A cancer needing heat therapy
A plague in the Eden you inhabit
Your bombs rain down on those foes
Branded by you as miscreants
And your supreme being is away on holidays
Pity is frowned upon
And discouraged with angry voices
Your plan is to drive that herd to other pastures
Leaving you to inhabit the promised land
Death is your convenient tool
Applied with the rigour of a master craftsman
It is a deadly plaything of the rich and powerful
A device of power put to use throughout time
And you use it now
Look at the chaos you impose
The wreckage of a society shattered without mercy
Bodies wrapped in white lying in the streets
People sobbing and mourning the lifeless
First responders hurrying into partly destroyed hospitals
With patients in their arms
Media cameras recording the chaos despite desperate danger
Where will this lead you?
Will you triumph in a cause célèbre?
No
Victory is but an empty token when the reason is injustice
Oppressors fostered by brutality are doomed to fail
You must not continue your way of bloodshed
Your cruel conviction you have the endless right to kill
Your demonic program of atrocity
Your inhumanity for which there is no valid reason
Hear this then O epitome of iniquity
Villain hidden by a mask of authenticity
Support is dwindling for you
Your associates are now seeing reason
So end your depravity in the name of human rights: now

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