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Write about the state of the world.
Try to keep it brief.
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GaryEnglish in Poetry & Free Verse

My World

The world has changed a billion times

Some of us monitor this

Looking for patterns

They do exist

The Right is rising

Manipulated, as ever, by the rich

Thoughts controlled by

Paid for social, or anti-social media

Trump speaks his mind

It’s the mind of an ageing grandfather

That should be humoured but ignored

And he Tweets like an eight year old

And Brexit in the UK, right or wrong

Has given validation to attacks on the weak

Those in need

And those not born there

Bombed out of their homes by western weaponry

Then accused of ‘invading’ the west

With their ragged clothes

Tatty bags

And ‘look, he’s got a phone!’

Experts are shunned

Global warming?

It was freezing today

So that’s fake news

Arctic ice is always melting

Nobody notices this constant wind

Yet.

And we create poverty

On purpose

So we have victims to blame

For the lack of wealth,

Diverting our eyes from the wealthy

There’s no lack of wealth

They’re just robbing the poor

To give to the rich

And it can’t be stopped

And ‘the people’ are united

Behind unreality television

That keeps them busy

Diverting their attention

From the wealthy.

But my attention is not diverted

And my shackles are falling from me

Beware

For soon I will rise

And reclaim this world

And those who stood by and did nothing

Will be proclaimed as guilty

As those who planned to steal my planet

And I will show mercy to the meek

But unto others

I will do

As they did

This is my prophesy

And it is certain

This is my State of the World address

A warning

Heed my words

For the time is coming soon

When I will judge you

I come in peace

To the peaceful.