No handrail

No handrail

A Poem by Tasi83



  
...For now the world around me is mad to the core. 
Laws, human dignity today 
can mean nothing to me,
 and nowadays, where there used to be
 an asphalted pavement,
 there is a blind macadam road.
 More and more people are explaining
 the consistency of faddish bargaining,
 but none of them has the courage
 to go out in front of crowds of people and act.
 The age of willful indifference
 to back-turning has arrived.


Patients are crying in stinking
 mouse-hole hospitals, as all decent
 money goes to the private sector.
 Those who would heal first
 - on a sure thing basis - would rather make
 a will at exorbitant prices:
 they all know that they could be
 sent to the operating table at any moment
 for misunderstood medical malpractice. 
And even if there was liability,
 the doctor in question acts
 like Pilate when life-saving
 responsibility is no longer his.


Today, the real, most important, 
necessary matters have been deliberately
 overlooked, and instead they are being replaced
 by even bigger, more blatant lies, 
and the night can no longer nurse
 an orphaned baby: the total, idiotic
 fog is covering everyone. 
It's only a few days, and those who walk in it,
 in pretty little piles of sediment,
 don't even notice that it's about them.


They make new chirping canaries into co-anchors,
 whose eyes would only be on new promising
 and fancy careers, on fame, 
but inside they are still empty-headed creatures.
 - No one is brave enough to look into himself
 and say to the world:
 - I made a mistake!
 We all made a mistake!

© 2023 Tasi83


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Added on January 30, 2023
Last Updated on January 30, 2023
Tags: contemporary, lyric, poetry, poem, free verse, prose verse

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Tasi83
Tasi83

Budapest, Budapest, Hungary



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I was born on November 30, 1983 in Budapest! I studied Hungarian history at ELTE-TFK, BTK; history teacher. I'm editing ebooks! So far, I have published my volumes on Publió and Publishdrive as.. more..

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