ANOTHER THOUGHT WHILE IN ISOLATION

This is a poem that I wrote while we're 'caught' with COVID -19. I've also made a SHORT FILM of this poem, and you can find it on either YouTube or Vimeo, just type into the search window - GRAEME RIC

 

Is your data safe?
Governments play the international game of hacking.

Crappy mind mapping colour charts as a form of backing.

Clandestine powers shift money,

As if fraud is about winning the race.

Unfortunately,

They win.

With no empathy for candor or justice.

 

Foreign dictatorships spy upon us,

As our leaders side step,

Skipping to the tune if ignorance and deceit.

Elections are manipulated,

Politicians are dressed up with dodgy votes,

As brown paper bags in back alleys make sure there’s a scapegoat.

Though,

Come festival time, gala time.

These carnivals,

Somehow.

(We don’t know how?)

Have earned the privilege of not wearing masks.

 

On the other side of town,

There are those fanatically obsessed with freedom.

Refusing to ‘tow-the-line’,

Treating experts with contempt,

As if liberty dwarfs one’s dying body attached to a machine.

Added to this mistrust,

Are their irreversible malevolent cellmates.

Who shout an’ violently wave placards with only one letter upon it.

“Q”.

Their treacherous belief system

Now drenched and felicitated by the impotent social media.

They holler, like automatons, in cascading repetition…

“It’s nothing but a socialist cabal, to submit us to Satan!”

I, on the other hand,

Quietly observe with an open mind.

My conclusions ready to be unsheathed.

While keeping both hands firmly on my weapon of choice; a laptop.