Who needs
aliens? You don’t have to be paranoid to imagine shadowy figures in the world, not
only treading its corridors of power and conspiring to access our own living
rooms but which will almost certainly bring us to the very edge of Armageddon
one day if only to give humanity a final push and send us all into freefall…from
which only a select few are likely to survive.
The
public face of the world leaves much to be desired. Thank goodness then for those
people from all socio-cultural-religious backgrounds ever bent upon exposing misleading
stereotypes and redundant traditions to help
bring the whole socio-cultural-religious ethic into the 21st century
regardless of the risks to their personal safety from die-hard bigots, religious
fundamentalists, and those faceless mandarins that have stalked the corridors
of power for centuries whose primary concern is self-interest.
No one
person can change the world, but if everyone but does their best in their own
little corner of it, hopefully the ripples will spread…
(OTHER)
SECRET AGENDAS or ONGOING REPAIR WORK IN FRACTURED SOCIETIES
Secret
agendas,
writing
treaties in various tongues
on a
mother’s heart,
smiling
at young lovers cavorting
in comic
strip cartoons
Secret
agendas,
providing
a eulogy for the failures
of its
multi-cultures,
observing
how occupied territories
live on
empty gestures
Secret
agendas,
inciting
revolution among dreamers
who would
face facts,
repair
broken words to make good
well-heeled
intentions
Secret
agendas,
dropping
lovers in black holes blown
by
would-be martyrs,
sending
letters home written on scraps
of
roadside shrapnel
Secret
agendas
shooting
down deaf-blind stargazers
for
darker centuries
than
this, light years on since we first
let
battle commence
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2008, 2014
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