PEACE and SANITY

Mislaid, so it seems in the mayhem 

of our clever notions of global villages (minas God) 

and evolving civilization;

when it’s basically revisionist ideas

on behalf of glorified mega-trade,

usurping and replacing the empires of yore.

Contemporary versions of slavery

with oligarchs and moguls 

calling the shots -

 in the name of democracy, unity, humanity or diversity, blah blah.

The people resist on principle

or keep silent - seeing no point

 or part to play:

excluded, except as figures on a screen, workers to keep working: 

to coerce, mollify, oppress, vote or use as cannon (sorry, drone) fodder.

Our daily bread, or bills to pay

the regulation way-by-fore.

Yet, somehow, some way

perennial concepts of Truth prevail,

even if at best, termed transparency

• turning every thing inside out, upside down

and giving them different names.

Same old, same old, forever anon.

 Cretaceous dinosaurian modes of survival extant…except

for vestiges like Hope, Faith, Trust even, letting go:

surety of the self-cum-Soul.