Thursday, 5 October 2023

National Poetry Day 2023 - Theme Refuge

 


Refused refuge,

distorting truth.

Stop the boats, spews the right-wing news.

We are full we don't want you.

Use terms like surge,

hurricane, swarms,

torrents, floods.

An act of nature

that will bring with it blood.

Politicians’ smirk with glee.

Division is a sure way

to keep people on their knees.

Breed fear in the populace,

they will beg you to set them free,

even though you

are the ones holding the key.

 

Politicians take refuge

in their crumbling palace,

built upon lies, spite and malice.

Whilst the populace

seeks sanctuary in the nearest

mind escape factory.

Anywhere they can be taken away

from their lives of drudgery, of mental

enslavement to a pack of jailers

who should never hold the key.

 

Refuge, to feel safe,

A haven from the fear

of life being taken away.

A fear of the state.

A shelter from the downpour

Slate like rain of terror

that is always flooding their door.

Only to be called

criminals, opportunists, hordes

and barred entry

with a barricade of hate

from those who should offer love

but instead

give people that primal urge

to want to see rivers of blood.

 

Life has no borders, those lines

are there to distort us, divide us

and cajole us into

our fenced in prisons.

We are one, a community of earth. A union

of souls with one goal, to live and thrive.

But we get drip fed soundbite lies,

about them against us,

haves against have nots,

rich against poor,

poor against poorer.

These words set fire

to the bad blood that pours.

So let us open our doors,

and offer refuge to help the cause.

 

 


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