First it came in the name of being free
and having dignity
no more slavery
Then it gave us recession
We turned on ourselves
Austerity’s court was in session
boom and bust
lusting after other peoples wealth
Tax havens for the rich governed by stealth
then came war epidemics and famine
we turned on ourselves
shops shelves bare
we only care
about our own
immigrants were the first to be enslaved or deported
then the disabled who couldn’t work
were eaten up but the system
Under the guise of fairness,Eugenics
and pandemics
then the working class were enslaved again
under the pen
and keyboards of corporations
The middle class became the working class again
While billionaires became trillionaires
Meanwhile planet earth festered and burned
and the rich found that you can’t eat digital currency and cash
as we dreamt of a bubble that burst like a infected gash.
Love was always the answer
hatred is a cancer
I wonder when we realise the path we are on
was the wrong one
Sign of the times
Daniel Hooks on BBC upload radio show uk
Poetry I go to you for help
Origin of there’s a monster in my toy box my children’s story
Enemy of this state
A lifetime of longing
The woman who became the dream
Hiding genocide
we chose to hide
from the term genocide
but in a world gone mad
we turn our heads away
into dismal dismay
future generations
will look on with eyes of damnation
and righteous indignation
damning people and countries complicity
in simplicity
and brutal bloodshed
Vicious violence
while the media spin a web of silence
the catches people like flies in a web
only entertaining the perception of perpetrators having the right to protect themselves instead
and yet we are the ones who live in the land of the blind
and see
the ones who can see this conflict for the genocide it is
Gaza I stand in this vigil
for your people
and can’t bear the moans of the dead and dying
the children crying from losing limbs
and family
Are we the ones the only ones who give a damn really?
this is my last prayer and request
that even in your ashes we will not rest
we will bring about peace and a resolution
before it’s too late…