Drilling Out Blame

Gold cherry

By Jane Hyphen

Tue, 16 Nov 2021
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These people, 

they have no beating heart,

only fish-eyed stares.

Cold, drilling out blame.

Seeking dirt to dish,

as they swallow in haste,

what they believe is theirs.

 

All the time they count.

Reckoning is their game.

To drown us in numbers,

as we are gasping at the gills. 

None of us can breath

and the final score is always nil.

 

They whisper up a storm,

hiss out a stealth wind,

and in their dust,

we question ourselves.

What is really there?

Only to choke upon 

everything we know is true.

 

Their dead-beat hearts.

A collective, gilded conscience,

they closed ranks, seamlessly, 

stood and watched,

while everything burnt,

only to claim,

it was never really there.

 

 

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Comments

Submitted by celticman on

anger and  impotence. We nullify outself as we look on at the slow-moving end ot it all. This is great. It captures how we feel. 

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Thanks celticman. Ambivalence and helplessness. My screen's gone fuzzy, I don't know what I'm looking at anymore. Thank you for the cherries.

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day

Please share/retweet - it deserves a wide audience

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Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Thanks for pick of the day. I love the picture.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I cannot imagine how indigenous people from forests must feel, the woods are so important to me, but it cannot possibly be the same as for them. This is the appeasement stage, where those in the know are aware there's something terrible out there, growing stronger, but it's so much easier to roll over and put off making the expensive decisions while hoping it won't ever get that bad for them.

"stood and watched,

while everything burnt,

only to claim,

it was never really there."

This is the scariest thing, for me, how facts are edited now, we have gone from "the camera never lies" to "deep fakes". Yet it is science which is disbelieved, because that humankind is deliberately setting in place the suffering and premature deaths of ALL  children born now is so wrong it is easier to believe anything offered that makes this seem untrue. That fuel companies used all the techniques of the tobacco industry to spread doubt is boggling, you convey this cynicism so well!

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Thanks for your valued feedback Di. I think our leaders have become so skilled at producing complex smokescreens, combined with all our endless sources of news, means trying to unpick all the information is futile. 'Deep fakes' as you say are part of everyday life and it's terrifying. The G26, a peculiar case in ambivalence; on the one hand, a global emergency, on the other, a vanity project, 'Look, we care' but 'we don't'.

 

Submitted by Ed Crane on

This magnificent piece makes my efforts look pretty insignificant. 

I applaud you for penning this work of genius!!!!

 yes x 1,000,000  

 

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

Thank you Ed Crane, for your wonderful compliment.

 

Submitted by marandina on

You could apply this analogy to many situations. This is a forceful piece of writing that makes its point in a wonderfully articulate way. Congrats on a well deserved POTD. Paul

 

Submitted by agnosticnun on

Beauty from ash, and rage...
How do we make them listen?

Kristi