APOCALYPSE!
Time is marked!
Not by the hands of the clock,
But by the hands of human degradation!
One day passes as easily as a week,
A month or even a year;
Five years, then fifty, then a hundred;
Centuries age, each one as yesterday.
Injustice: The lack of justice; prevails!
There is no peace, only violence remains.
Depression ensues, a repetitive cycle.
There is no escape!
Possession of goods, of wealth, of people;
Fate takes ownership of living souls.
Tyranny is the practice of tyrants!
Life is limited in value!
Who is worthy to judge its beginning?
Who will be responsible for its end?
Darkness exists within the shadow of light;
Human souls are oppressed throughout night,
The day comes and leaves emptiness,
Vacant space and unfulfilled dreams, or reality!
Wealth controls, the poor, poverty and tyranny!
There is a lack of understanding,
Consolation or compassion is unappreciated.
The weak are dominated by the strong;
The silent are harassed by the braggart.
Victims exist when there is inaction;
Malcontents perform misdeeds and misappropriation!
Fifty years, a Jubilee, for joyous celebration!
Who will commemorate their immorality?
For every right there is a wrong!
For every victory there is a defeat!
How is time measured?
The evening light encroaches on the morn;
Today's death is yesterday's darkness!
History repeats itself, repeatedly!
Those who write today's page are their own historians;
A generation is not of parent or child,
But of experience, immature and undeveloped!
The dictator knows no limitation;
Justice is not only blind but absent-minded,
The law has no relevancy!
Human rights are human values!
Paid for by blood and broken bodies;
Deaths of precious unfulfilled lives.
The price applied for equality has been driven
By the spiritual, by a sense of well being!
There is no culture which has advanced
Absent of the acknowledgement of God!
There are no glorious deaths; that is foolhardy!
There are sacrifices of life to preserve the living.
Struggle and turmoil exist consistently.
The elements march to their own beat,
Man nor woman have influence.
Canute could not conquer the sea;
Babylon shone as a flicker momentarily!
Nations no longer have existence!
Values are not upheld for basic rights.
Economic rape robs individuals daily;
Speculators plunder economies at will!
Money is the rope that binds and strangles,
Poverty is forced subjugation to the task master,
Protected within enclaves of righteousness!
How fine the postulations of the rich,
Of the noble ideals of independence.
Self resources are developed until expired,
Or left to accumulate for greater wealth.
Raw materials are controlled by absent landlords,
Markets manipulated to serve the few;
Control exercised by tainted mechanisms.
Free enterprise, free trade, does not exist,
Where unfair advantage is taken by the stronger,
Participant, not partner, to such agreement.
Battles fought in words derive the same outcome,
Of those where bombs and bullets are employed;
Bodies broken are the result of fiscal pillage,
Death advanced by the pursuit of unfair profit!
Historians and poets have recorded the noblest past!
Misdeeds and atrocities are overlooked,
When the Victor determines the outcome of ideology.
How many, who called themselves Caesar, destroyed
Their enemies? Those who offered opposing ideals;
The words and thoughts recorded were obliterated,
Without passion, without equality, without acceptance!
The condemned have no advocate!
Genocide or fratricide mark no boundaries;
There are no unblemished histories!
Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Spaniard, Italian,
French, Anglo, Nord, Japanese, Chinese or American;
There lies a tainted glory and death the outcome.
No people can claim exemption or atonement!
How many images must be repeated?
Visual evidence resounds in every graphic form!
The media proofs itself in newsprint or in vision;
Bloody bodies, skeletons, massed graves, the fallen tombstones,
Evidence irredeemable and unerasable measures;
The human element of mankind;
Of which kindness is an expression undefined!
Modern man and advanced society are blind!
Closed minds accept degradation and atrocity;
Justice is limited and the law ineffective.
Base instinct leads to the fulfilment of vacuums, empty minds!
Spaceless time and entity devoid of substance,
Devoid of well being, devoid of grace;
Is this the Apocalypse which now rides?
The Cold War has thawed and ideology has been cast aside?
Unprepared a multitude must now decide,
To leap forward in one fell swoop, or risk
The falling by the wayside! Yet, is the answer,
The alternative course to be ascribed?
Grasped the straw in tempests wake now found;
The imperfect and unbalanced theometry!
The mighty produce the elements to destroy the weak!
How hypocritical to advocate gun control,
And to continue to manufacture and sell armament!
How many bullets, from how many guns, are needed
To kill one man, one woman, one child?
The strong create the dependency of the weak;
Death is the reward, the solutions finality!
A society which ignores moral application is doomed!
One standard cannot be applied for an elite,
And be ignored in areas beyond provincial boundary.
A crime in one jurisdiction is a crime in another!
Ignorance is no defence under the law!
Education is the prerequisite for fairness and equity.
Who will compromise truth and justice for illegal gain?
There are few who may claim to be Robin Hood!
There are few who will outlaw themselves for moral gain.
Anarchy is the outcome of double standard;
Enforcement the price paid for the pain.
Social tiers tumble when unfair advantage is taken;
Rebellion for a cause may be unworthy,
It is the victor who is left to judge.
Violent is the nature of Man!
Self seeking and selfish the basest motive;
Self gratifying and controlling are the demands.
Foolhardy this approach to community!
Compromise requires enforcement and standards set must be uncompromised.
Equality must be offered to the majority, individually.
Peace carries great sacrifice and many demands!
Unsatisfied citizens resort to violent action!
Who will condone assassination?
Many of the fallen were the mighty.
There is no limit or restriction to rebellion;
Civil war is uncivil and most bloody.
The self righteous proclaim themselves most loud;
Action taken may not be legal or justified!
Faceless terrorists resort to damning actions!
The innocent are the victims; they are unknown;
No quarter is given; none should be returned;
The defender need not follow the route of the aggressor.
How often is violence acceptable? Never!
There is a balance, but it is not for the militant.
Explosive solutions leave no structure to rebuild!
The thief and the criminal should be condemned!
Let God forgive when Man has extolled the Law.
The guilty are those found wanting by their actions;
There are no trade offs, no plea bargains,
Where life and limb are lost for no just cause!
Tread wearily you martyrs and heros;
Today's action may be tomorrow's most dastardly deed!
Redemption is available at a price!
The cost is intuitively known to power potentates;
Divine retribution will not wait the Revelation,
Voices silent will grow loud, firstly in anger,
Followed by action as history has already shown!
He who rides the pale horse brings despair;
The sword that swings is double edged!
Will George © 1995
Will George Poet
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