Friday, 22 August 2025

Stage show

 


Welcome to the stage show. A true-life tale

brought to life in front of you by the mainstream news.

Where we will tell a story made up of falsehoods,

we will ignore the blood, we will ignore the death.

We will ignore the plight of bones

left just waiting for their last breath.

Still under our own breath we will say

it’s a Shakespearean tragedy

when in reality it’s more like an Orwellian fantasy

dreamt up by the sickest of the sick.

Yet still we sit back in our seats and clap

whilst the fat cats play.

All the time the clocks will continue to tick

as innocent lives wither away.

 

There are murmurs in the crowd, 

rumblings of disapproval

but these soon get shot down,

like poor people waiting in line.

The bad actors fluff their lines

time after time, gaslighting

in the name of another war crime.

They call it a famine, but why stop there?

Let's spell it out.

A man-made famine

caused by murder and fear

only ever spells

G E N O C I D E.

Letting a whole people die

whilst we watch on

doing nothing. The tills ring

as the adverts appear.

 

We call them out but I’m afraid

that shouting holds no clout.

Heckling will be met with full force,

So, we are forced to sit on our hands

As others applaud. Doing nothing

is as bad as letting the curtains fall.

An outrage from backstage

but know that if we stop

selling weapons and arms,

then the rich won’t be getting a wage

and we can't have that can we?

So, we carry on, playing

pretend like everything is okay

 

Finally, some movement as the curtains fall,

this isn’t a stage show production after all.

It’s more like a circus where the clowns

hide their glee behind tear drop smiles.

We have stood still for months, 

all the while

the innocence of a child

has been smashed as they wait in line

just fighting for survival.

But movement tastes like a bitter pill

as it is all too slow to stop innocent people

being killed. This is state supported murder

and we just tut, saying how it is

not good enough whilst still filling

out our ledgers in innocent blood.

 

 




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Kyle

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