belief | alienpoet

Don’t believe the hype

it’s all tripe

I fight to be heard

with powerful words

but sometimes I fall short

a butterfly caught

in agonising self expression

another session

of writing does it yield results?

heart felt words

and worlds I have built

love and blood I have spilt

my flowers wilt

I try to water and nourish them

but they break at the stem

but I need them

I am my confidence

my ego defined

yet I mine

for excellence

for written talent

But I fall

sometimes short

another poet who’s caught in the block

a rock stopping my river from flowing

I live in knowing that I want to be a success

and in this I can never rest.

They have enslaved us

We may curse and we may cuss

distrust our leaders

we must not bite the hand that feeds us

but our hands bleed

we are wolves without teeth

belief, in brighter days 

made us slaves

the light which is ours anyway

Austerity just another sickness 

of the state

Gives rise to division and hate

we are all to busy fighting for existence

to seek a better system

or resist them

So the rich get richer 

and the poor live by the wire

from Theresa May to Boris Johnson you are all liars

We don’t believe in socialism or looking after the defenceless 

It’s tribalism that’s too expensive 

we need to move from leaders to people

to save our planet 

but damn it

we are too busy infighting 

So what do we do 

move to other throw

or make the system work

It’s in your hands the future is work

that pays off 

and doesn’t enslave

and that saves the environment and Gaia

do we want to end in nuclear fire

ruled by psychopathic liars.

alienpoet