trips

lost in confusion

Let us walk now afresh in voluntary submission

voices are rising ( and falling ) the sea still so calm

now just allowed    for so long forbidden territory

distancing sand and sea      while in crowded shops

people  roam  freely 

birds   echo    magi  in crowned resolution  

hear the screaming earth 

caught in the claws of raw contradictions

Let us walk confused in confusion in

confined deconfinement deconfined confinement

where pundits and bandits set limits

defined undefined and laces done unwound

with  corona  meandering  between  the grids

Let us  walk with infamous walkers that foul

the very word and stain water and earth

same old lies new disguise

greedy ticks in tax paradise

sucking workers' blood and lives

in   daily  floods   of    inequity

Let us shop in hot spots again with open minds

masks  unavailable   but compulsory

let us buy till we drop and die like flies

in sumptuous lies   satisfy your hunger

and  drink  the poisonous  broth

And let us fly again   in  planes  bright  green

environmentally    friendly

reaching havens of dream  in tourist elation

revelling   amidst  native  deprivation

For  indeed   there  will  be  time  to ponder

and wonder about the nets they' ve stretched

from  horizon to horizon   eternally

And we know all the transactions

the shares the crucifixions  as we watch

the  aims  waver  and  stutter

Here comes another day   as old as new

as people stammer in the throes of dismay

and tear time off the ropes of sleazy play

and the sky thunders but hears not the beggars

the lamp in the room watches the bleeding hours

the bitter taste of madness dots your naked arms

with flags of glory thrashing the darkless night

and behind the windows   trees are dropping tears

of transparent time    and  workers dismantled

stand  and  stare    in  disarray                     

as dear old Beckett said 

when in the shit just sing and stay

and  the wind is roaring    and the dead are rising

and  the  sea   so  still   so calm   still    wavers