Wednesday, 10 November 2021

At the Crossroads

How we would like a life of ease

Away from scandal, greed and sleaze

Yet, barraged by vast media hype

Do we consider what is right?

 

Engulfed these days in deep malaise

Where the superficial plays

A major note in life’s long theme;

We’ve lost the plot; know what I mean?

 

Dark shadows in our mind’s eye play

We chase chimeras, lose our way,

Are ‘talking shops’* the way to go?

The hunt for votes makes progress slow …

 

Autumn, meanwhile, glows with gold

Amazing views, ours to behold!

We meditate - how life is short;

Must all this beauty come to nought?

 

We’re buffeted in life’s fast flow

What lies ahead we cannot know

But survival means a brand-new trail

So, will Common Sense prevail?


(c) Poet in the woods 2021

* i.e. COP 26 ...




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