Sunday, 11 August 2024

Saturday, 10 August 2024

For A Tikkun Olam Broken

 

We agreed

that this earth

was unfinished

not the perfection

my creator required


And He had errands elsewhere


So it was

up to us, me

you, and them

to build, to repair

but we sadly failed 


While He had errands elsewhere


Where did we improve

his creation or ourselves

in society or on battlefields

like Somme, Kursk or Gaza

fratricide didn't stop with Abel


By now Your errand is down here


So the servant is telling

his Master to end the tour

and come home to the mess

we made when He went away

to clean house purge the temple


All descendants of Abraham look up



© 2024-08-10


Note.

On tikkun olam and/or islah: it's our moral imperative to perfect the world, to improve and to repair what is broken. Look around you, how many of us, as a collective or individually, match 'if you save one life it is as if you have saved all of humanity'. 


Yet you decided to live your lives 

from games to party to festival 

from pretentious to depraved 

from disregard to contempt 

from fraticide to femicide 

from racism to fascism

from war to genocide 

from pride to greed 

from spite to hate

from void to hell


and all this while making selfies to boost the ego even further

to quote a popular song from the nineteen eighties: 

"....don't stop us now, we're having such a good time, we're having a ball....".


Yes, you may call me a killjoy, yes, I am spiritual, self-conscious even, yet not a Pharisee. Look up, children, look up!


© 2024/08/08 ©


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