TM Gallery: 2019

Monday, December 30, 2019

When the ugly faces of fascism and racism rise

Towards the dystopian rule prevalent in fiction today

The daily assault of atrocities everywhere beats down

A cold hard rain of despair and disillusion.

While the grifters in government plunder the treasury

The decadence of crony capitalism signals its end of days

Promising things will only get worse in the near term

As long as the reign of the oligarchs continues.

Being aware that my personal event horizon approaches

Knowing what I leave behind is scarcely better than I found it

Such is my disappointment after the heady days of youth

When world revolution loomed waiting in the wings.

And yet the prognosticators never see what's coming

Looking ahead making predictions as the next decade begins

Not expecting the rise of organized popular resistance

Demanding the complete overthrow of capitalism.

Certain that ubiquitous state surveillance will dominate

Not realizing that technology makes for vulnerability

Discounting how people can respond to events

When the crisis of this dead end system hits home.

To believe in a coming socialist revolution as I do

Seems farfetched when few share my optimism

But as the contradictions intensify into barbarism

Imagine how the range of possibilities will expand.

The promise of planning for the good of all beckons

In a time when profits for the few threaten all humanity

The pollution of land, sea and air destroying our earth

Compels us to stop this planetary death machine.


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