Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Tasmanian Europa Poets' Gazette No 87, July 2011
Just Pondering
“Double, double, toil and trouble,”
Shakespeare’s witches said -
Was their world so very different from ours of today?
Greed, hatred, injustice and upheaval are rife,
Poverty opposes wealth
(with a vast chasm between),
And, at the least, unrest rules -
What has changed?
History tells us that wars are nothing new,
And ruthless men in control is nothing new,
Where will it end?
Perhaps “the powers that be” are in revolt against our ingratitude
For life on this wondrous planet -
After all, so far no other place in our universe
Gives us a choice!
Or perhaps Hell has risen to unleash upon us
Widespread fires, floods, hurricanes and cyclones -
Aren’t we receiving the strongest message possible?
Fix ourselves and our precious world
Before we self-destruct and hurtle into the black void!
Today, I’m sitting at my keyboard -
Just pondering.
© June Maureen Hitchcock, February 2011
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
