Thoughts while getting old
Just a thought…or two.(when you still have your tie-dye tee shirt)
We are the last of our kind…
the “Give a Shit” generation.
Left-overs from a time when life was cool.
‘And The Wind Cried Mary’.
We marched to hold back
the tides of persecution…
While feeling guilty for a past
we had no part in.
Cracked smiles of countless Miss Worlds
asking for world peace.
Oh… the weight of those expectations.
But that was then…
I’m left here hanging by my laurels,
thoughts held to ransom…
a day at a time.
While a land that cries for freedom,
is struggling
under the consequences of indifference.
The price paid in blood
on Aleppo’s streets of shame.
This world fiddles while Aleppo burns.
The terms of engagement
written by those
who buy and sell our souls….
from one conflict to another.
Empty headed hypocrisy
rattling the gates of Hell.
For there is money to be made.
And the Wind Cries Mary – nice Hendrix touch. One of your better pieces Mike – especially for the Nero reference to Aleppo: a disgrace to all humanity indeed and the Halliburton reference at the end. Mitch
Thanks mate, good of you to comment. Finding it difficult at the moment, not getting much done.
Mike