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We may care but would you fix it ‘out there’, not here?

The Latin ‘vincit qui se vincit’
(‘he conquers who conquers himself’)
frees us only when we evince it
as won’t just happen by itself!

When of risk-takings we may be lukewarm
let others take’em should they care
If they need so badly to transform
then let change take place – but ‘out there’!

While we of course retain the right to reprove
those, who imply that we should need to improve

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So what if our Species outlook is dire, as long as the consumer heart stays afire

Right wingers march in neo-heimat
breathe out air & thought pollution
To ignore the collapsing climate
appears their preferred ‘solution’

How shall this mess, surely soon, end
as false cheers drag us in abjection?
Pernicious threats makes deadly blend
in consumer dreams, wide selection:

Wars been raging without ceasefires
as do now global floods, wildfires

Nations lacking sense to back down
prance at very edge of nuclear war
they war game ‘limited’ showdown
while ‘suitcase bombs’ may blast through backdoor

Too close to the edge we totter
in political meltdown
by the self-styled ‘genius’ plotter
revealed himself vile a clown

Economy precariously
fumbles while greed’s ruthless prophets
on Wall Street most nefariously
amass usurious profits

Enabled by our own inanity
we’re perishing amidst insanity!

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‘genius’ plotter = Trump

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Life of its Essence we’ve wrung

Watch our contrived smiles beaming
flooding the feigned community
see our well-brushed teeth gleaming
All relished with impunity

With entitled importunity
we’re elbowing in fake freedom
for abundant opportunity
like found in erstwhile Yankeedom

While life’s very essence seems since been wrung
what we now stand for may thus be unsung

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In life’s sunset most tranquil my mindset

Enjoyed youth’s wits
Then in my senescence
wits called itself quits
Such now my quintessence:

Been left but with whits
showing up in mere fits
now unmoved by glitz
ain’t moping in the pits

Now dwell in my life’s sunset
in most tranquil a mindset

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whit = a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

 

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Erstwhile hope fervent that technology would become our servant

Find myself apprehensive
of disruptive technology
its claimed blessings ostensive
trade-offs bring no apology

Since ages human hope has been fervent
naively over-optimistic
that technology would be our servant
Now we toil, its slaves fatalistic

Inescapably in its fetters
robbed of last chance of defiance
now also as its hapless debtors
in fine-print, rigged non-compliance

This time we shall have no revolution
that saves us from Species’ execution

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Is the purpose of life just for life to go on?

From mere species viewpoint we’ve failed
if we think in terms of right or wrong
while Big D has got it nailed:
It’s just a matter of going on!

The Big D bestows ceaseless strife
singly we just don’t matter
Humans among all planet’s life
bore Big D with their natter

Doesn’t care for how any one of us exists
just as long as planetary life persists

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-Big D = The Divine

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We could have mitigated. Instead we abdicated

There’s no longer much stretch left
of our Species’ narrowing path
which, had we back then been deft,
could’ve used to brake the planet’s wrath

Instead we caused Earth to crumble
by our consumption willful
Recklessly kept up in rumble
our feigned ignorance skillful

Unwilling to restrain
we decided to downplay
Little time shall remain
until our Species’ doomsday

Our shuffling so far in dismal dance
assures that our Species stands no chance

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Ruggedly unconnected, disaffected

There ain’t no society
among folks ‘hubristic’
it’s just a variety
of those ‘narcissistic’

Their ‘rugged individualism’
which they so me-firstly cherish
constitutes no defense mechanism
Unlike some others they’ll perish:

all alone, disaffected
ruggedly unconnected