Whatever Happened To Love?
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This poem last appeared on the blog well over a year ago. I look around locally or further afield, and can’t see that much has changed.
Ah, but hope springs eternal, yeah?
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LOVE?
No peace in the park for druggies
desperate to fund the luxury;
no time for drugs? Go for alcohol
poisoning instead…
No fun at the fair for pickpockets
out for an easy ride;
sanctuary in our schools invaded
by a culture of bullying
Generation gaps made (far) wider
by five star psychiatrists;
Mother Nature repeatedly raped
by property developers
War on Terror, welcome distraction
from Home Front issues;
our own backyards heaped high
with body bags…
Consciences cleansed with charity,
confession, prison programs …
Problems worse for pointing fingers
of blame elsewhere
C'est la vie, we’re told, and no point
in crying over spilt blood;
prevention better than cure, they say,
so whatever happened to love?
Copyright R. N. Taber 2005, rev. 2011
[Note: An earlier version of his poem was first published in CC&D poetry magazine(US) 2005 and subsequently in Accomplices to Illusion by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2007.]
This poem last appeared on the blog well over a year ago. I look around locally or further afield, and can’t see that much has changed.
Ah, but hope springs eternal, yeah?
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LOVE?
No peace in the park for druggies
desperate to fund the luxury;
no time for drugs? Go for alcohol
poisoning instead…
No fun at the fair for pickpockets
out for an easy ride;
sanctuary in our schools invaded
by a culture of bullying
Generation gaps made (far) wider
by five star psychiatrists;
Mother Nature repeatedly raped
by property developers
War on Terror, welcome distraction
from Home Front issues;
our own backyards heaped high
with body bags…
Consciences cleansed with charity,
confession, prison programs …
Problems worse for pointing fingers
of blame elsewhere
C'est la vie, we’re told, and no point
in crying over spilt blood;
prevention better than cure, they say,
so whatever happened to love?
Copyright R. N. Taber 2005, rev. 2011
[Note: An earlier version of his poem was first published in CC&D poetry magazine(US) 2005 and subsequently in Accomplices to Illusion by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2007.]
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