And for this God will wreak havoc (because of Shireen Abu Akleh)

When the once butchered 

become butchers themselves

in a world where nothing's learned

not from the first not from the second

but only how to trample neighbours rights

your brothers and sisters from a shady past

In that sad world you were shining your light

where you spoke for those without a voice

you voiced the occupied unable to speak 

but you lay suddenly still and silenced 

assassinated, so brutally murdered

by a nation strayed from the One

 

****

Rest daughter of Canaan sleep

daughter of Palestine in truth

be blessed for all your work

salam Shireen Abu Akleh

your death'll resonance

the upcoming verdict

****

© 2022-05-14 to 2022-06-18

[ once added rules of sophistry ]

 

Was there ever an eerie time

where [once] just 

ten commandments sufficed

Surely there was, for Mo and for me

But so many hills and years further

the [added] do's and don'ts by men

have changed all into being cunning

There are those that claim misfortune

conceals itself in [rules of] happiness

o was there ever a fitting benchmark

Yes, when the mountain came to me

To look sharp and cutting edge it is

society's [sophistry] sophistication

where all is bling bling yet not light

Demystified Fifty eight

© 2022-05-21

[ This the verse of wishful wistful ]

 

This the verse of wishful wistful

oh, to leave well enough alone

that dream of old to live without

rules, regulations, prohibitions

Where the ancient sage told us

to sit back and let all the people

improve, rank and enrich itself

No strange inventions or thievery

as desireless the sage so the people

to rediscover its original simplicity

Ah, but as in that first line is written,

that friends, is all Longear's Utopia

no longer mine, as I do not believe 

reaching oneness, through people

Demystified Fifty seven

© 2022-05-20

[ My finest line ]

My finest line - will never be read

nor will it be written or be spoken 

it will remain that one line -of life-

hidden deep in my being, forever

as part of an inscrutable silence..

Demystified Fifty six

© 2022-05-19

[ I shook off the burdens ]

I shook off the burdens

of all you'd laid upon me

Kicked off my light shoes

discarded all of my clothes

Ignored the stingers

the scorpions 

and 

the venomous snakes

you'd thrown on my trail

So I walked barefooted 

cashless and guiltless

even as innocent I was

once no sting could hurt

I just reached inside

and relied on what was

given like a blaze of energy

a fist clenched before opened

to release a harmony undaunted

Never a die, never a wrong or captured.

Demystified Fifty five

© 2022-05-17

To Rain On Your Parade

 

Well now Vladimir

all those eyes on Moscow

this ninth of May

but even so 

it was Volodymyr

who paraded on his own

and stole the show

© 2022-05-09

Written in support of the Ukrainian people in their strive for freedom and democracy.

[ Cultivate ]

 

Cultivate

Being one

Emulate

We that have true strength

have no desire for tyranny.

Step by step, cruise

firm, never uprooted 

grasped, never let go

It's my world as I see it

born from inner solidity.

Demystified Fifty four

© 2022-05-04

[ A world filled with Pharaohs ]

 

A world filled with Pharaohs. 

When thieves become kings

dressing in expensive finery

living their extravagant lives

while not caring for the crop

not on a field not in the silo.

Speak of past and present

was there eer an unarmed

one ruler that new the way.

Right!

Remain, remain single weed

know all, yet cannot persuade

the inhabitants of the imperfect.

Demystified Fifty three

© 2022-05-03