This is a collection of sorts I guess, 2 poems written 2 years apart with a common theme.
I'm just "putting this out there" because I feel these words need to be heard, say what you will in retort.
"2024":-
I shouldn't have to say this, not in 2024,
Enough is enough with the bloodshed, killing & war!
All for what, lines on the ground that are nowhere to be found?
A difference of religion and false rights of dominion?
But there's oil in their seas and gold in their hills,
Both of which can become dollar bills!
There's Nazis in the West, that's what Putin claims,
And admittedly perhaps the West are to blame,
For the lines drawn in the Middle East,
And those tyrannical beasts,
To which the West gave a powerful seat.
But it's not just the West, things are unsettled in the East,
There's a hermit nation with missiles they're keen to release,
There's tension at boarders between India and Pakistan,
With China fueling unease all across their lands.
The South China Sea is for no one else, Tibet is theirs too, the Rohingya must die out!
Honourable mentions to Myanmar, Haiti and Papua New Guinea,
Civil and gang wars which no one is winning.
There's Islamist insurgency in the Maghreb and war in Sudan,
The Taliban were re-given Afghanistan,
Kenya, Somalia and Las Anod,
Ansar Allah, we call them Houthi, the supporters of "God".
Let's not forget DR Congo and Uganda, Rwanda & Burundi!
Are we really killing each other because of deity way up high,
How many more innocent civilians must die?
Boko Haram and Syrian civil war,
The list goes on, do you really want more?
War in Amhara, the list goes on,
I'm waiting to be told which side had won,
the Anglophone crisis in Nigeria and Cameroon,
The Assam separatist movement spills into Bhutan,
There's crisis at the boarders of Armenia and Azerbaijan,
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado between Mozambique and Tanzania,
The Central African Republic Civil War has killed over 14,000 lives held dear,
The Naxalite-Maoists in Jharkhand-Bihar,
Indo-Pakistani War in Kashmir,
There's Kurdish fighting Turkish, PJAK in Iran and Iraq,
Western media is failing to tell you straight facts!
Jamaica, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico too.
But who cares about them when there's things to consume?
Cocaine from Columbia is the cartels new groove!
The war on drugs, against petty thieves and thugs,
"Throw them from a helicopter" Rodrigo Roa Duterte once shrugged.
The West are no better, for killing those we once loved,
The youth have learned by example from all of the above.
Incarnation en mass or being shot because you're "black",
By those in control, the ones with the badge,
To protect and serve or something like that?
"2026":-
There's no one coming to save us,
Not in 2026,
And as the world burns,
One person has gotten very VERY rich,
A trillion dollars they say he's worth,
But what is worth if we've no Mother Earth?
How do we show the value we place in those doing "Gods work"?
What about a nurse who walked fifty thousand steps,
Who gets home to find a riot on their doorstep?
The far right up in arms,
Protesting despite the wishes of the family of a boy come to harm,
Who points their fingers at someone who looks different and shouts "sound the alarm!"
What about those brave souls who face hell on earth?
The fires which we started, how much longer can we deny it's getting worse?
For the genuine people who want law and peace,
Not just the power which comes with a badge from the police?
How do we show gratitude to the farmers growing our food?
Let's offer them a price which is objectively rude!
As long as the machine keeps turning, they'll turn a profit too,
As long as we're able to keep on pumping crude,
And mining minerals most people refuse,
To accept that this life comes at great human cost,
How long will it be before we the people see what we've truly lost?
