Monday 15 April 2013

Fleeting




You're supposed to get the impression that.....

in England you should be happy with your lot 
Cause in europe you could get shot by some dick with a kalishnikov 
get blown up in Northern ireland in a chip shop 
or in Israel at a bus stop  
by some maniac strapped in semtex and a wrist-watch 
programmed in a rush to meet his god 

In the middle east
you might be executed by police
or the army
if no-one's hit and killed them
and the next day streets swarm with swaths of vociferous men in synchronicity of contemporary dancers
No longer asking appropriate questions but appropriating answers

It's them against the top men who made their friends the U. N and lay on a mattress of currencies fertilised with blood , lined with grief and embroidered with the thread of militia

They did not recruit sadists by nature, but in the politics of pragmatism before principle ,it's the barbarity of  deputised nutters, that precisely butters the bread for the kind of men who'd manage mankind ;
Who smoke screen our  immeasurable potential  with the cowardly stimulus of secularism 
by proxy  of creed

Some-one's being killed right now cause they're black or white or they have an insignificant variation on god  
or because of they're job 

and every other day somewhere a woman's getting murdered because she has the audacity to fancy a guy from another sect. Maybe daddykins'll slit her neck
and yet we take such pride in being the species with the greatest intellect
 when many a kid gets knifed in his chest cause of the last three digits of his address

You know, in Morocco if you're raped they'll call  you  slut 
and 
you live in shame 
but if the rapist let's you marry him it'll restore your family's name

So, though slitting the stomach of a pregnant women as a display then stomping on the unborn foetus is  unmentionable in the history of commonwealth slavery, today babies are fried alive in Syria
and being bound in an automobile tyre filed with petrol then set alight is given the charming title of necklace in Mogadishu 
 If you're female this might include shards of glass shoved into the vagina for vindictive measure

Rohingyan Burmese refugees are shot at and turned back into the Naaf estuary by   Bangladeshi authorities as they flee from such atrocities such as living babies impaled on upturned swords by Buddhists , defined by their devotion to godness
So they never pass the sliding door of an Indian shore but maybe the border's helicopters bombs will save them being burned alive if they made it home. 
Though if they miss the west will soon sell drones 
soon to be operative from western kid's smartphones
as the rise of the machine is on the horizon , expanding it's slot 
indicating there's more to some of those futuristic movies with autonomous robots
Our evolution seems to be fermenting
as humanity is starting to rot

I mean
When America dropped the first atom bomb on Japan victims were random
and that was an uncalled for show of bravado to the soviet union
But then 30 years later to drop a worst one on Vietnam and not give a damn

If it follows that if the first time they never meant it well by the second they must have been be demented
The chain of generational deformities is unprecedented
But so is this
Late 2012 and a young boy swings a sword too big for him to handle to try to behead, 
the shackled captive of guerrillas spurning him on , but  the man ain't ded
chop after chop 
So one holds the beard while the kid hacks at the neck with a knife till the head comes off and he holds it aloft
and the men who shunted his youth out of him chant with the incense of mislead value ,god is great
Well excuse me for losing my flow
but thats not fucking great
Heaven knows how we've spiralled when the video went viral

In Tanzania. They will surprise an albino child at dinner and cut his fingers off to  crush the bones cause a witch doctor named Jesus says it'll bring you , not him or the victim; riches
And in some proximity
inter tribal rivalry has shown men
Sever the limbs of opposing villager's children
So that they won't ever hold a Russian AK47 
Homeless children in Brazil are still target practice for police squads
called  extrajudicial deth squads culling the orphan vermin for urban communities
and that's their daily reality
A small proportion
become a profitable bonus 
of organ donors 
exports


But from London to the near east to south east Asia to the middle east a mother will take her few weeks to fifteen year old daughter to what she'll call a party where six women will be waiting for a batch of few weeks to fifteen year old daughters to hold them down one by one while they cut off her clitoris with a scissors in the name of tradition . 
The scar to be ripped open years later during marriage consummation
For extra change they'll use a fresh razor 
Yes , in London
where the copper that kills you wont make it to court
cause it's all nepotism and injustice is bought

So this poem is a candle I light 
because I'll never forget the image of that Chinese man making a stand with grocery bags in his hands 
facing tanks in Tianaman Square and didn't even flinch with fear
so consequently disappeared
because a fleeting brushes the pages of  fate
and nothing steers more caution than knowing you're close to a portion on the grim reaper's plate 
so every second, the quick ones and the very very long ones,  contain a droplet of prayer even though I don't believe in God
but I am so afraid , 
so astonished 
so disappointed and so ashamed
and the words that overload my gritted jaw are not for ears to hear
because what's more remarkable than mans consistent inhumanity  in light of experience is his hell driven perversity in spite of knowledge






Music.....Winchester lady by bob James 
Moments in love



















2 comments:

  1. Simon is the truth when it comes to poetry, read aboutthe open mic night he performed at last night here 》》https://redgoldenchild.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/unsigned-sundays-word-4-word/

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  2. Hello Simon, I have featured this poem on my blog. It's amazing.
    I hope it doesn't offend you that I did not feature the entire piece. If it does, send me an email and I'm adding you on facebook so you can message me there.
    I have credited and added a link to this blog as well.

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