The Lethal Sword of the Hidden Mahdi

Even as the universe is expanding 

growing evermore vast and distant

our globe is contracting becoming

smaller and more transparent. No longer

are borders capable of constricting the

curiosity of neighbours in this era of

mass communication and cyber intrusion

and those considered enemies have at 

their disposal many assets the finest in

secret revelations, humint, conscripting

citizens of tyrannical threats to human

existence to tell all. And so it is that a

nation dominated by a theistic overseer

plots a cataclysmic event to destroy those

who doubt its formidable links to the divine

defying a world body of nations condemning

its secretive drive to attain a lethal force

to unleash a redeeming Apocalypse where

only the just and the faithful may survive.

In Worship of Clean

 

Is it not strangely paradoxical that

humanity considers survival without

freedom a quaint notion to be dispelled

through revolutionary zeal unseating

tyrannical dictators so all may be free

and live in the luxury of liberty as befits

intelligent beings. Yet that discerning

humanity shackles itself to rituals in

pursuit of the unattainable; to cleanse

their habitation of the stuff of the universe.

A cleanliness mania dictates what tyrants 

do not, that vast energy be spent in the

endless cycle of sweeping, dusting and

mopping up our very own shed cells and

those of our pets and with that the dust

of distant stars in galaxies far off not

averse to drifting endlessly to find rest

in our homes. And we obliged to tidy up

what nature discards. In so doing shackling

ourselves to the dismal mania of routine

fixing our destiny in worship of clean.

 

 

 

Imperious China's Gifts

A great nation truly distinguished by great gifts 

heaped upon the world by Imperial China whose 

philosophic understanding of humanity and the 

courageous act of living were matched by the 

production of its sublime artistic talents leaving 

priceless calligraphic, exquisite porcelain, matchless

architecture and representational art as an aesthetic

testament to human achievement supported by its 

recognition of a system of bureaucratic meritocracy.

Gone, long gone that era, in its place an imperious 

China its goal to set its mark of ownership of world 

resources and in return gifting the globe with labour 

courtesy its immense population-skilled production 

urged on by the Chinese Communist Party jealous of 

its reputation as a viper is of its territory incorporating

into its reserves Tibet and East Turkestan the better 

to enslave its unwilling human elements while genetic 

riches of the region produce the fine minds of scholars

scientists, writers and surgeons. All called upon by 

their benevolent tyrant to serve their country at home 

or abroad sharing secret intelligence to sharpen the 

sword of offence. Gifts of the modern era generous in 

chemical opioids and pathogenic viruses to bring 

the world to its virtual knees while the keepers of 

that ancient civilization's assignation with destiny 

with the blank vision of statuary, revel in spite.

 

Contorted New World

A strange kind of human social progress

this is, abandoning an earlier era when

respect for process and method saw those

eager to leave their homelands to migrate

elsewhere in response to opportunity or the

urge to escape repression, oppression and

abuse, make application for immigration

prepared to await the outcome, hoping for

acceptance and if they arrived at their new

adopted country prepared to learn its history

customs and values, obeying its laws

anxious to become an integrated part of the 

whole. Refugees too, escaping state-level 

human rights abuses or conflict arrived to 

take their place with gratitude for their rescue

in the orderly process whereby nations select 

those they deem capable of integration and 

conformation. A new era has dawned where

failed societies ruled by tyrants, nations where 

criminal gangs challenge government for authority

countries at war with themselves and their near

neighbours bleed migrants escaping the confines 

of uncertainty and fear marching en masse

declaring themselves entitled to bypass legal

systems and other nations' will as they seek out

those countries identified with wealth, defying

security and laws in violent rebellion against

exclusion. Migrant groups seeking a better life

scorning their haven's heritage, culture and

values, bringing their own establishing enclaves 

of resentment and rage that the culture and 

values of the their own heritage are not the

universal norm as they set about with firm intent

to establish there the very conditions they fled. 

 

 

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

 

Ancient creatures and ancient identity rites

of inherited biological memory from the primal

to the present. Those that venture far afield in

nomadic travels faithfully return to their destined 

roots and so salmon and eels, butterflies and 

penguins, terns and wildebeast cross global divides 

rediscovering belongings of the past. There finding 

harbour to ritually spawn and beget their young 

before recommencing their endless generational 

wandering. And so too does humanity recall in 

inherited memory its ancient past of ceremony

and tilling the earth, the erection of monuments to

a higher order of faith, the resistance of conquest

and struggle against the powers of oppression in

defiance of a dynasty of authority and command

that led to the chaos of violent destruction and death

tormented turmoil, displacement, migration and 

exodus whose diaspora nurtured ancient memory

yearning toward returned rediscovery to join the

past with reborn presence celebrating the future.

 

 

guilty, Guilty ... GUILTY!!

There can be no denials. There were witnesses

mind-bogglingly observing the heinous act. 

Three men beside themselves with disbelief. 

What they saw cannot be disputed. A video -- 

those ubiquitous revealers of reality reflected 

the brutal audacity of the perpetrator. Leading

the outraged witnesses to  contact authorities: a 

Black man racing through a white neighbourhood.

What to do? How to respond with courage and

determination in defence of the community from

assault on their dignity, their history, their pride?

Rifles, grab the rifles, into the truck, head off the 

criminal. Theirs the duty to serve and protect 

their community; he must be stopped at all costs. 

And, brave fellows they were, he was. They put 

an end to the unspeakable incursion. At age 25

he should have known better. One might have 

thought that from impressionable childhood on

there was no assuming he had the freedom and the 

right as an American proud and free to flaunt an 

age-old discourtesy to his betters. So then

he earned his comeuppance. Well, didn't he?

Notes From A Skeptic

 

Yes, there are wistfully confused times

when boys wish they had a womb and girls 

long for a phallus, the former to create not 

merely procreate, and the latter to exude the 

confidence of physicality. These perplexing 

whims as the young learn to grow into their 

character life roles are not shared by nature 

whose blueprint was to divide humanity into 

separate yet linked destinies in a harmony of 

male and female, each complementing the other 

with the end purpose of survival as a species.

Yet the social order has undergone a strange

paroxysm of re-alignment whereby that

sometimes-uncertainty is celebrated and

encouraged no longer merely countenanced 

while other elements of society declared there are

no performance differentials between genders

assigning women to professions once solely

occupied by males, although males are far less

likely to direct themselves to roles tethered

in a more conformist era to females. The

world is teetering on the edge of a starkly

unhappy revolution, the mystique of gender

opposites in their attraction deposed, withering.

Whatever makes them happy nature dejectedly

mumbles, like any good mother anxious to

see her offspring happy. Are you happy now?