Thursday, January 29, 2026

FURTHER WEST OF TIME

 

Further west of a little beyond from here,

They took away free will

And gave us guns and god and fear.

 

Aim at the heart and mind, and fire -

For the Warlords need guns to kill the children

Of the flowers that fall down to carpet the tree lord

Who sends the oxygen pods,

Canisters with the breath of God.

 

And what's said to the Mind will wonder that a baby

Wrapped in swaddling rags, to be buried in the morning

Killed from the muzzle of a gun, beaten out on the anvil of glory,

By a boy who became a soldier in a war where he must kill another

For the freedom of his homeland, by dying for the other. 

 

And we exist in a building that could be beautiful,

With fast cars that feel lonely in traffic snarls,

To make all the money we could never spend 

In one lifetime that knows not the time 

Of man and child decided by heaven's weightless rhyme.

 

In the depths below the sea, a worm counts drops

In an ocean that rolls to read the stories of another

And they rolling round and spitting venom swallow men

Who ache for a freedom they didn't possess

From their god from further up west.

 

And the beggar who wants no riches, but a little food

To throw at the crowd who follows him like a star 

that's dying in the morning 

To be windmills in the churning of the wind

That wants peace in an evening that sinned.

 

They glow hopeful till another hurls a spear 

at the water that's placed on the counter.

And the goldfish is fried by the sun's heavy pour

And the birds change their colour

For a click that's frozen time for tomorrow.

 

And we told our women to hide behind the curtain of morality

Coz, they have their place in the breeding of another

Who will be called a soldier to protect the women  

who could have killed but gave birth

To strange men in the unending river of dearth.

 

While you watch the grass that blooms with a wisdom 

that it never knew, I'll drink a little of God's ether.

And you can play Kong in a kingdom 

that hides in the sands of the mind 

that lay buried beneath the great-grandmother of time.

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