Notes of a Concerned Observer

Notes of a Concerned Observer

A Poem by Sazaku
"

"
Innovation:
our time-honored annihilation.
Another latest, greatest fad -
screams the planet of the mad.

Extinction
of our borrowed Creation.
Flesh bled dry and painfully bare.
Soon nothing will be left to care.

Never mind the havoc we wreak.
Close your eyes to the truth we seek.
Focus solely on trampling the meek
as we hurdle towards a horizon bleak.

Bastions of faith, furnished in greed
preying upon the ones in need
Slums kept perpetually divided by breed.
Youth loved like weeds, not sprouting seeds.

"But there's nothing I can do anyway-
hey, doesn't the new episode air today?"
Or maybe if we all collectively pray
our problems will just magically wash away -
cleansed by storms of environmental decay
ushered in on skies of mournful grey,
as if we didn't for a moment have a say.
Unable to escape the shadow of yesterday.

© 2016 Sazaku


Author's Note

Sazaku
I don't know how I feel about this poem, but I suppose it is what it is. I wrote it this morning in a fit of introspection, which eventually turned outward as I looked around on my daily commute to class. The seed of this was already jotted down in my notebook, so when I turned to it, thoughts strung together.

It's probably too preachy, it's probably too whiny, but I dunno. This has been irritating me lately and it just needed to come out in some form or another. I don't think this writing is really up to muster, but maybe I'm being overly harsh. I have a feeling I'm not, though.

My Review

Would you like to review this Poem?
Login | Register




Share This
Email
Facebook
Twitter
Request Read Request
Add to Library My Library
Subscribe Subscribe


Stats

174 Views
Added on September 6, 2016
Last Updated on September 6, 2016

Author

Sazaku
Sazaku

KY



About
Words in chiseled stone bear truths I can't bear to share. But I fear I must. ------------------------------------------------ I'm just a student pretending to be a writer, pretending to be a .. more..

Writing
Asylum Eyes Asylum Eyes

A Poem by Sazaku


Wait / Weight Wait / Weight

A Poem by Sazaku