Calculated Inaction

Now tell me what you gain

Through your heavenly grace and fiery rain?

Streets lie broken with ruins strewn, and

The children remain unknowing of their pain.

You wiped the decadent from here to

Start afresh and right your wrongs;

Why start with these scarred by the loss

Of those dearly loved and hope for the sun

To cleanse the memories of a bygone day?

Blow thy wind across our cheeks

And show the beauty of a world that

Now must live by rivers and creeks.

The old centres of life and death

Are no more thanks to the play of your hand!

The smirk of your clouds across the sky

Can’t disprove the futility of your work.

You split the earth and swallowed them whole,

You disparaged the air between the factions

And celebrated when many a mushroom sprouted,

Freezing the young through calculated inaction.

We shall judge you too one day –

Not through a fire like yours

And neither duplicate those fathers of ours.

Your fate is to kill your creation again

And again till the end of meaningless time.

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Darkness to Light to Darkness

Swimming abreast the primordial soup

Beneath air glistening with a phantasmal glow,

We came upon no break nor beauty

That called for thought or reflection.

The clouds were jewelled and vast,

And the skies beyond held visions of stellar births,

But what use these sights with none to behold?

Waiting for the prestige, we swam on in the dark.

Where is the will to refuse or rise against

A power, or an empty hand that forces?

Though the flow takes us nether, we shall

After all, remain your helpless children.

There were times when the dream was

Rough at the edges but pleasing to an eye,

But what thirst they quenched, gave no

Gain nor grouse to gamble or grapple with.

A dream is, after all, meant to be forgotten.

We listen to the night's chorus, we grow

Wary when chants call upon 'light' to lead;

We step back into the wispy remnants

Of the past and pray for ignorance to

Redeem us and defile this impossible truth.

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