Book 39

Page 21

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Loud political voices

 

 

 

 

Loud voices

in my ear.

Calling everyone 

“a rebel, / a radical, / a non welcome queer.”

 

Those loud voices

oozing from the houses of parliament.

And I ask;

what is it that they wish to prevent!?

 

Do they speak a productive dialogue?

Is it a healthy discussion!?

What do those political loud mouths want to achieve,

with their ‘loud mouth opinionated percussions’?

 

Loudly they spread their particular disease,

of human unrest and human unease.

Of displeasure in everything it seems,

everything that is that is in the slightest bit, ‘unusual.’

 

Borders become tightened,

Prejudices’ become heightened,

to the point of sounding

‘all so normal and proper.’

 

Loud intolerant words uttered,

- as classic sentiments of ignorance

and prejudice and intolerance

are sputtered.

 

Loud voices everywhere it seems.

 

O it’s enough to make you

want to …

join in and shout, …

“stop!”

© Written by Dominic John Gill September 22, 2006www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au