Play of sorts

Crazy world
Crazy mixed up leaders
Tainted in evil
Words said in rehearsal
Spat at the people
Where’s the reason
Where’s the whys
It’s forgotten in the play
The director needs to rewrite
Cut !

But the investor in this play
Sits invisible
Dark shadows
Cigar smelling
Foul
Calculator ready
Actors
Media light action stage sound
Just another day for him
For them
as there’s more than him
Behind this play of sorts

Not for us
Not just another day
We say
He’s deaf with deader feelings

They all deaf dumb blind to our days

Reviews

[JP142000]

I love this! I havent posted on here in a long time but this was a welcome return. Wonderful and timely write. The idea that we need a rewrite on the world stage is powerful!

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Aww yes thanks
I’ll read yours soon

[Ken Simm.]

Excellent and appropriate use of metaphor. And I would like to emphasise how apropos I find this. the whole place needs a rewrite. And this brilliant write brings that certainly to the fore.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Hi much appreciated thanks 🙏

[William Michael Reeves]

This seems a timely write. I'm a news junkie and think Putin is spitting on the world. He looks like Russia's version of our Cheeto in Chief. Toxic Orange himself. Not sure if that's who you are writing about. Especially with the theatrical theme. Putin wasn't getting enough attention on his stage so your poem feels appropriate to that. I really like poems with themes on top off the subject.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Oh, I really like your second stanza. I also agree with this...I think that the script needs to be thrown out and a new one written, with the people in mind.
The leaders think themselves the stars, and that is furthest from the truth.
j.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

So true
Lots of back up actors if they leave too stand ins
Thanks 🙏