Blank
I am losing all sharpness
to win an argument
good riddance.
Children of my world
playing rape-rape game
shoot-shoot game
right in their schools
like hide and seek of the yore
innocuous, pure
the bigger kids must be
heading somewhere
towards progress
with all of them.
Inside
I am listless
I re-read the lines
of the pied piper.
Note:
The poem is in response to children shooting each other, playing rape games in schools.
Reference: The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Very apt and disturbing -bravo
Thank you. Supratik
Hi Supratik,
I have long since decided I no longer identify with the world I see around me. Yes, very much with nature, which is all part of the web of life….but humanity has lost the plot and is heading for a fall.
‘In the world but NOT of it! ‘
Alison x
Thank you Alison for reading and commenting. It’s good to read your views, always, as I feel we are on the same boat.
Supratik
If only they were just playing games. Like you, I am more than confused by the ‘modern’ world but I’m going to be seventy soon so I guess that gives me a reason.
This was well written, immediate, punchy and to the point and with the recent American school shooting in mind very sad.
I’m sure we weren’t that violent when I was the wee girl you see in the picture but then that was not long after ww2 so I suppose the ‘real thing’ was still fresh.
Very good read.
Chrissy
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Do no harm.
Thank you for stopping by. I am glad you liked it. Yes it is sad, beyond words. Supratik