We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)
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18.12.23

Futility


all around the world

we scream out against war crimes 

but who’s listening?


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an island man stands

up to his waist in water

above his drowned house


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most people can see

what's wrong with war and greed

yet governments still ...