2022?
Another year over
new one set to come:
Might we ever awaken:
Or doze comfortably dumb?
The rich get wildly richer
The poor sink abject poor –
the strong turn despotic:
can there be a Cure?
Marie Antoinette
Would be dismayed today
I lost my head for this?
perhaps all that she would say
Neo-feudals neo-libs
Revive the retro days
regress back the centuries
restore redneck ways
Progress is in free fall
rights , wrested away
western civ is on the brink
that meme has had its day
Magna Carta near repealed
Dissent bundled away
Liberte, egalite?
Idylls , with feet of clay
Nature repairs our ravages
In time ,that has been true
But with this corps of savages
She may not have a clue
2022 is looming near
we lurch in dull distrait
will Goodwill ever rise again
or will Evil rule the day?
*
History ever mimes
Old with the New
The Compliant are many
The Defiant ever few
Nothing ever Changes
That Itself may not Change
as we blitz about in frenzy
frantic chickens on a range
We dream a horse can fly
and wish that pigs have wings:
but what we win on roundabouts
we lose upon the swings
The Juggernaut of History
lays the best of us low
a few attain the palace keys:
most fill the pit below
Not much ever changes
that may not be reversed:
are we just Incorrigible,
or just plain Accursed?
[© R.Kanth 2021]
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Professor Rajani Kanth, Author of Coda, A Day in the Life, and Expiations, is Trustee of the World Peace Congress
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