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Book 36 Page19

Against everything and everyone

 

The man with the bee in his bonnet sings his sonnets of love and of greatness

and of ‘being triumphant.’

But I think he speaks really of ‘hate.’

Preaches his ‘new beginnings’ as if he was a messiah

or some kind of saint.

 

He preaches for change and he always says “it should be now.”

He wants change so badly but he doesn’t say precisely; ‘what or how.’

And somehow I reason it looks like he's preaching that; we’re all ganna pay.

 

Pay for the wrongs of the past.

Pay to make this world a little less harsh.

By hook or crook this world will be refashioned.

By revolt, / war, / violent or / revolution.

 

And when the goose is dead,

when all the ills of the earth are put to bed.

When the ‘bad people’ of this world have been shot in the head,

“there will be peace;” he says, "there will be love,

there will be ‘utopia.’"

 

And it will exist right here on planet earth.

Yes a shinny new life will emerge,

but first of course,

this world must ‘be purged,’

according to this man.

 

And then mankind will know of its own greatness.

Gone will be human 'hatred' … in,

this new world.

 

So says the man with the ‘bee in the bonnet.’

So say ‘he’ who sings about hatred and change like an old worn out record,

singing repeatedly his ‘angry sonnet.’

But I don’t believe him anymore!

 

No I don’t believe him anymore for I just see in my minds eye; ‘war.’

I don’t see any rhyme or reason in the ways of; ‘evening up the score.’

And to tell you the truth, I really don’t know what that preaching man stands for,

Cause;

I just think that he’s ‘against everything and everyone.’

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au 08/28/2004