A world new and naked…

(Seiyun, Yemen: 19 March 2009)

It all began on the wrong foot

Loss of innocence

First disobeyance, sibling murder

Hate campaign, intolerance --

The cauldron breached

The boiling point at the start.

Son fathered mothers’ three children

Father begot daughters’ seven

Husbands five wifed a woman

Brothers and sisters, gays and lesbians

Gay and wild man distorted god’s intent

Relationships all got overheated.

Crusades, Wars, Holocaust,

Bosnia, Darfur, Lanka

Rajus and Madoffs, Lehmans and AIGs,

The overdriven avarice melted the globe.

God! Blow it up and create anew

For man and animal to crawl in innocence.

No religion, science, sophistication

Let the new world live in full nakedness.

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Planet sans preachers and leaders

(Seiyun, Yemen: 19 March 2009)

The festering wound is beyond cure

Heaps of bones and ashes

The planet anon sure will be

Sit by the river of blood to brood

The destruction wrought by man

Of the gifts you showered.

Rue your imbecility over him

Let a phoenix emerge from the ashes

Sans creeds, canons and colours

Hungers, thirsts, wants and needs

Vigilant ought you perforce be

Lest the new man outwits, too.

All for each, none for few

A planet sans bondage or frontiers

No preachers, leaders, bosses

No knowledge as it sprouts evils

No evolution as it’s humbug, cuts throats

Just let us amble and idle away.

Let’s swim in the rivers, eat fruits and roots

Slumber in the shade sans dreams.

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