Thursday 23 July 2020

2020 Vision


Twenty looks at twenty,
Perfect vision.
Reflecting the Other
Inside each other.
Estranged Shadow
Reflected to perfection.
This year is a world-wide
Can of paint spray,
Dropped and pierced.
It keeps rotating
Inside each human,  
Spitting out hatred
Sticky slime of despair
Comes oozing out.
Metallic-tasting red
Is bleeding through.
Anger bursts out
Green foam of envy
Freezes mid-air.
Nothing could be hidden
In twenty-twenty
Vision.
Oh, how very few
Carried jars of honey!
The earth shudders
Waking up from a
Thousand years of slumber.
"Thy brother's keeper" –
It mutters.
"So that you may live" –
We answer,
Weeping through our rage,
Softened by real
Human touch,
We bend down to clean
Our shared home.