Manifesto
Whether it is a war of personal attrition,
Detrimentally involuntary
Or a war of hatred with their neighbour
Muscle flexing showing national pride and anxiety
Whether it’s climate change, wearing thin our planet,
Many single voices spouting climatic rhetoric
heckled and shackled by those likely to lose livelihoods
Not thinking that eventually, we all lose our lives
Water shortage, food shortage, energy shortage
Intellectual and judicious shortage
A people shortage in a world of abundance
Let's remove those country borders that stifle growth
Destroy obstacles to mass migration
Allow those yoked either in wealth or poverty
Free rein to delve deeply across this vast globe
Reassure families they can grow without fear
And their children will benefit from others' benevolence
So far mismanaged democratic ideology has shown itself
To be no better than Communism, despotism or fundamentalism
Fascists, Marxists, Christian or Muslim radicals
Show no sign of being the way forward
They all blockade the free movement of ideals
Preconceived and constructed barriers
Create vexatious fears
Sexual, racial and inequality of opportunity
Barriers to the disabled and unenabled
The young, the frail, the sick, the bewildered
Homophobia, heterophobia, transphobia, lesbiphobia
“I’ve just got a phobia.”
Against those that think they know the best
Governments, lobbyists, and unionists
Activists, those single-focused do-gooders
Blinkered from looking through the big-picture window
They will never learn that there are no solutions
From living in a monophonic world
Let's remove personal tax liability
Let the people grow what they sow
Dissolve regional and national governments
Have a world order and orderliness
This will incite a hurricane of trepidation
But once the dust has settled,
We will eventually live in peace
Russell Jacklin
Sat 1st Apr 2023 10:12
Thank you, Stephen. I stand ready to take over the world.
Sorry; I mean, I stand ready to support world peace.