Mind Police
they cancel lesser beings
who think on their own
sans mercy, sans sorrow…
they take no prisoners–
be obedient to the latest mantra
or be made an evil shadow….
Arriving at Old Age in America—The View of a Seventy-Seven Year Old in 2024
Now the old man says,
“What did I do with my life?
What did I change?
Whom did I help?
What did I learn?”
and then he adds,
“Why am I alive?
The war is long over–
all the wars seemed over
until a new one was born
in an evil and empty heart.
But now the old man sees
that a different kind of war
courses like a blood-soaked
ocean wasting the once solid
land of the free and the brave.
Minds are shrinking, hearts
collapsing, souls dying as
the evil-minded are freed
of ancient restraint and
mass murder is on the menu,
a daily special it now seems.
When human nature is denied,
then it will roar up, like the
broken beast it’s always been
but now no longer cowed by
fear of God or fear of humanity.
