Her life in turmoil, sad in a poor home, no money to spend, two halfpennies left. ———– The lawyers look on with glee, another widow, vulnerable and poor, steal her home, send her to in-laws oppress her till she numbly goes. —— They set the bar high, in the temple treasury, 2 coins is a… Continue reading The Widow’s Mite/Oppression Destroys
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Budgets Kill
Blue eyes sunk in a worried face, dim with the ache of hunger, closing to hide the horror of cruelty in power and control. —— Brown ones too in the faces of children understanding that they are voiceless and that loving adults voted for —– this annihilation, bold policies that take their food, warmth, their… Continue reading Budgets Kill
Guantanamo Fear or Victims
—— He hides face in his arms as they grabbed him, twisting, hurting his already rope burned skin, innocently he had travelled to aged Afghanistan, guilty by colour and creed he was violently taken, not arrested, nor accused like hundreds of others. —— Guantanamo Bay, a cruel place of tried and tested torture criminalising good… Continue reading Guantanamo Fear or Victims
Tyranny
He yawns and suborns. He snores breaks the laws. Watching the world waits and wonders, will it ever end or will he make them bend again and again to suit his rules, and calls them fools, as he laughs and sneers behind their listening ears. The homeless are in the gutter because that is his… Continue reading Tyranny
The Tithes of Prejudice
They tenderly picked up her body, wonderfully made, brutally murdered, Her intelligence snuffed out, her wisdom lost, her mothering care gone. Society wept, crying against the constant bombardment of hate, hate, hate, spoken through the media social, the radio, the speeches and the street, as it wielded a gun, killed her, willed her death, for… Continue reading The Tithes of Prejudice
They have a dream.
I have a dream, one cried. to subjugate and sully the lives of all those who are not like me. —— I have a dream, two cried. to bully and bait each and everyone who cannot be treated in my equality. —– I have a dream, the third said, to have power and control, to… Continue reading They have a dream.
Deaf to the oppressed.
Are you listening? A lonely voice echoes off the cliffs of fixed ears that will only hear if its tune fits. — They called over and over, hoping in vain for the murmuring of many distant voices that crowded around, to tune out nuisance noise; to make a dent in the deepening declivity of intentions… Continue reading Deaf to the oppressed.
White Supremacy
Its competitiveness that daunts the faint hearted, bullied into a dark place where submission is heroic and the soul crushed by their insistence and persistence pushing them further into the darkness. Then, white skinned see only their own worth and break down the barriers of investment port folios and grab at the next chance to … Continue reading White Supremacy
Stealing a Life for Profit
His back bears the brunt of racism and hatred gouged into his flesh.
Fascist Take Over
Muttering behind their fisted hands, and murmuring voiced their complaints, and muted applause for a strangled clause, that moderates a response while killing goes on. ———————– Burbling streams that wear folk down, and buttering up the cream of influence, and bartered appeals that threaten children, through bargaining that weights the loaded die. ————————- Fractured opposition… Continue reading Fascist Take Over