What a fate

 

What a fate

If writing poetry has become my

fate then I must seriously

Contemplate

the question of what to

write – whimsical, serious, poetic, dark or

Bright?

Many are the issues, good and bad, that capture

me –

the world, the wars, hateful capitalism, global

Solidariy and the

ecology.

Nature, my fellow humans, so many of them are so beautiful, I love them, but Putin and Trump and Netanyahu and all who support them, they’re hateful. How to make them stop, and realise that their hate and violence will lead the human race and the planet to tragedy and loss and

grief beyond

Belief.

I don’t think this poem will

change all that nor

will the poems of every poet in the world, or Greta or Taylor Smith, or any of this

Will,

but put us all together, art, music, poetry, books, films, Greenpeace, Doctors without Borders and everybody who demands a true revolution for

equality and it will be achieved

Finally.

What else is

there but

Despair?

 

19-20 May 2024

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