What kind of person, with the power and resources to do so much for so many others, chooses instead to exploit them?
Tag: politics
When Night Fell
Night fell
On the last ride
At the end of the trail
On those uprooted
Murdered
Stripped of identity
On the last ride
At the end of the trail
On those uprooted
Murdered
Stripped of identity
An image a white man made
Which earned white man’s awards
In a museum of white man ways
A monument to a way that was
Meeting Lenin
Sometimes I sit and think about
The men hist’ry treats with greatness
Often with the best intentions
They philosophize false witness
The men hist’ry treats with greatness
Often with the best intentions
They philosophize false witness
They script the creeds
Direct the deeds
They lead a people
To their fate
Or is it ‘fate’ created?
In a Haze
In a haze of incense
The pilgrims
And the tourists
Come
The pilgrims
And the tourists
Come
To Tibet
In the heart of Beijing
It’s so decreed
By The Party
Marvelling at property
On a beautiful night
Sunlight still waning
I look across the bay
To the skyline beyond
Sunlight still waning
I look across the bay
To the skyline beyond
Marvelling
At the achievements
Of time and millions of men
Barbed Wire & Bullet Holes
Barbed wire and bullet holes
A 20 year old reminder
Of a country broken
And rebuilt
Broken again
And rebuilt
A 20 year old reminder
Of a country broken
And rebuilt
Broken again
And rebuilt
Walls within Walls
Walls within walls
Doorways within doorways
Once forbidden
Once foreboding
Doorways within doorways
Once forbidden
Once foreboding
Layers of mystery
Peeled away
By time
Politics
And Money