Freedoms Of..............
This one is not for the faint hearted, so, if your not strong enough, look away now!
Freedoms Of…………
I am just tickling you now,
Saying the thoughts you dare not say and
How fickle of you to excuse the news
By rubbishing honesty to its face,
Man, Woman, you’re disgraced and best
Left placed on
To be a Human Being!
It’s not about your politics
Your religion or the gender that you choose,
For unreality kept you blinkered,
Dressed it up as culture,
And the fact is, before all this,
All we knew was peace!
You claim you know what’s
Best for Earth whilst following
Lines of indoctrination,
Its nations of lies rehearsed
For you so every angle has you hurt,
Placed within a plot
Boxed stopped and robbed
Outwitted and cremated
Before you’ve lived the life you’ve lost!
Then you’ll blame each others
Point of view before looking at yourself,
Before testing of your wealth of character
Before your personality finds truth,
At what cost?
At what cost I ask as I see agile minds
Crippled in their infancy by teachers hiding civil rights?
You’re a Muslim ding
And a Christian bloody dong
You’re a Catholic felatio,
A Protestant bloody wrong,
You’re an afterthought of killing
Or Semitic born not willing,
You’re Orthodox and fundamental
And all without your choice.
You’re communist,
You’re capitalist,
You’re democrat
Conservative,
You’re the one who keeps the
Caste on toilet floors for the womb
From which you’re born.
You’re Taliban,
You’re Al Queda,
You’re
You’re Royalist you’re Loyalist
Republican and Labour
You’re the reason peoples
Battle every neighbour,
You’re each and every opposite
For denial of the truth,
You’re cowards of your own
Design for living lives you didn’t choose,
You’re creating enemies of
While sweeping own back-yards,
You’re passing bills the people hate
To strengthen own resolve.
You’re Bush’s Old World Order,
You’re Mugabe’s best of brother,
You’re Pinochet’s personal saviour
You’re Thatcher’s knackered children
From schools that never taught you
Nor did they reward you,
But sat you all alone,
Next to embryo’s in glasses of abortion
For a portion of the rule, the whip
The slipper and the cane, wake up
Wake up and smell the coffee or stay
The bloody fool.
You’re your own Police under surveillance
You’re Allah! God!
You’re
You’re Generic License under wraps
This be the Coward that you are.
In truth,
You’re Power,
Corrupting absolutely
The Good you wished you were,
You’re anchored in the past,
Trying to stretch into the future,
You’re ‘keep a clasp on Empires Days.’
You keep a falsehood in collusion.
You’re King and Queen
And I’m singing like a tenor,
Spending just a paltry wit
On the tenner I have left.
I’m bringing flight,
To all injustices that you prescribed to remedy your status,
I’m keen on all the good that could prevail
For Earth is on it’s downward spiral.
And what you’re not, is able to live your life for following your ‘norm’
A norm sealed signed and blast at you before you were even born,
What you are,
Is stripped of all your freedom,
And what you’re not, is Lenin, or even better still -
John Lennon -
Rest in peace my friend,
And give the man upstairs my hug,
For I miss the freedom and the quiet talk
That exists in paradise,
And let him know Dear John,
Of the casualties on Earth -
Huddled deep in underground
Who sing the thoughts of freedom,
And let him know that despite the indoctrination
That power exacted on our lives,
We know that deep within his name
We have his………..Imagination!
We have his imagination,
Where thought of all we find in purgatory
Is not jailed in his name,
Is not jailed in his name,
Nor in mine
(Nor in ours)
Not in my name,
Not in our name,
Imagine!
Michael J Waite 7th January 2010.
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Mon 11th Jan 2010 05:26
I don't normally enjoy reading poems which meander across the page because it is usually a contrivance to make a boring poem look interesting!
I also generally find poems with an 'agenda' based in politics, morality or religion degenerate into an incoherant rant where the poem is lost to the argument.
So I approached this with some trepidation and a slight cynicism after reading your intro.
Yet, by the end I was extremely impressed on many levels. By the end of the third reading I realised how skilfully crafted the poem is, how measured and considered and that the message is about the struggle of the essence of humanity to escape the shackles of indoctrination passed down through each generation, whose separate moralities and beliefs divide rather than unite. Everything about organised religion, politics and social structure claims to portray righteousness and concilation, but contrives in practice, to do the very opposite.
I don't personally believe that John Lennon, or his song, or the existence of any form of God are any more rational, meaningful or desirable than the falsehoods upon which humanity in general bases its debased opressive agendas. In truth it is not easy to imagine a world without countries, possessions. Nor is it easy to 'unthink' the concepts of heaven and hell, even if like me, you don't believe in either. It is not the structures that are flawed, but the way in which they are deployed by those who wield the greatest power. And yet the greatest of all is supposed to be God, but the complete abscence of any direct influence on the twisted logic of his alleged creation (mankind) who dress him in guises of conflict rather than love, is evidence that 'He' is merely a construct of the imagination of people who strive for there to be something more than 'this'. Something beyond the physical existence of subsistence. Yet ultimately, Lennon's imagination is set on dismantling the ethereal and spiritual and creating a world based on a simple moral ethic of sharing. Sadly, this misguided notion disregards the fact that human beings are merely animals. Highly evolved animals, but nontheless, fundamentally and instictively creatures whose personal survival and procreation IS the meaning of life. Everything else is of the imagination, but imagine how much simpler life would be without the capacity to imagine! Imagination is the fuel of greed, power, corruption and all of the catalysts which created the multitude of different and conflicting systems and doctrines which enslave the masses!
Lions, foxes, insects, fish, birds....do they 'imagine there's no heaven?. Do they imagine that there is a life after death, a heaven or hell? NO. And they are better off for it! Furthermore their morality is not flawed, for their motivation never strays beyond the base instinct of subsistence and survival, into the psychological abyss of greed, excess, physical or spiritual domination. There are hunters and prey, but the prey are themselves hunters and so, it could be argued that the absence of imagination in the devolved animal kingdom is by far the most egalitarian, free and unhindered structure in which nature is allowed to progress in a totally ethical unemotional manner. Free of cruelty for cruelty's sake, free of the cumbersome burdens of legislation, litigation, law and welfare, which, in the hands and minds of human beings, will always be tools for self promotion and ego rather than sharing, common need, or even individual need. Lesser animals need. Human beings WANT. And to want anything, even to want world peace and the ideology which Lennon professes, is ultimately futile, for it creates its own conflicts of interests, because it can only possibly work if human beings returned to the unevolved, the unsophisticated 'needs' and strive for nothing beyond that. Take away our imagination and the world would be a much more peaceful place, because the only prey would be lower life forms and the communual aspect and instinctive 'herd mentality'for the common good of successful
animal species, would then be a NEED instead of a WANT!!
You can assume from all this, that I found your very well written poem extremely thought provoking! So take that as a compliment even if you disagree with my view that Lennon ought to be shot for having such daft ideas and that if God wants to make sure that never happens, he should ensure that no potential assassin is allowed to be created from the seed of HIS creation!!! Otherwise, God is as crazy as the rest of us!
;-)