Voices against an unstoppable trend
peace, ecology...
I hear sanity out there
in fictional works and splinter movements
Germany's Greens...Amnesty International...
Small fragments bobbing on the river of history
bound for the sea of final realities
to a final ocean of silence and armageddon
But...I hear no forming consensus
no rising conviction ever wider held
that the issues ARE critical
that the implications ARE deadly
That this paradise of nature
and the wonder of our children's eyes
our plastic everythings and ego competitive structures
are all tissue paper illusions
against an unforgiving reality
I hold those I love and wipe my eyes
that I might better see beyond the immediate moment
beyond the local forms which seem so permanent
the paychecks, the city streets and their names
There, the news that plays before us like some global soap-opera
against the force of our blind consensus reality
that says there are no problems unless we agree there are
I want to see where this history is carrying us
gallagher
25 oct 83
Irvine
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