I woke up on Thursday morning feeling that I was living in the final chapter of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye To Berlin.
The bad people have won. The callous, mean spirited, utterly ruthless, neoliberal, careerist politicians have acted with characteristic disregard for democracy. Words fail me.
I can only see the situation becoming ever worse. We can prepare to wave goodbye to the National Health Service, the few remaining employment rights we have and get ready for the end.
None of these politicians have the gravitas [or the intelligence] to save humanity from catastrophe. Be that from the environmental breakdown, species extinction or the ever increasing greed of the few.
the
silence of the great extinction
settled
on the shoulders of the survivors
as
if for the first time
they
could see all that had been lost
and
so set to refashion their world
shipping
in from beyond the stars
mechanical
birds to jewel their skies
and
fill a space long vacated
by
sinew and bone
feather
and wing
having
captured the thermal
see
how their propellers idle
as
they spiral ever higher
to
spectrograph heaven with their metal tongues
I have altered the layout [thanks to the Secret Poets for their input] and tried to make the final stanza flow more smoothly.
At this moment, if I am honest, I don't see our species surviving. We seem hell bent on making the situation ever worse. Hope packed its bags and left some time ago.
I leave you with John Coltrane.
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