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No one cares to notice


Not now my darling
the sky is falling fast.
Mountain tops eroding
the mining trade a-blast.

No one cares to notice
crime an everyday occurrence.
Play time for children – parking
inside some mind altering gadget
or machine.

No time for caring, sharing
or empathy at all.
The soldiers bathe in glory
no matter the quandary
child or man, woman or babe.

Matters not the kill, the damage
all part of that elite military thrill.
I suspect an atom will fall upon us soon.

Nuclear damage – well evidence of health
already a witness, but third world
so no need to hurry, plenty of spending yet
for twenty-first century idleness
and greedy mentalities.
No place yet, but oh too soon.

January 20th, 2014
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He left me…


He left me there standing alone
in the cold and bitter night
to watch what in evidence
had happened to our Earth.

The cold and uninviting moon
shadowed by the depth of despair
rang true to me now
as I faced this world
into which I now must boon.

Who on Earth is this man
who comes to me at night
and shifts and sifts the memories of old
to which I am to have no idea.

But the way that world was to be
looked very much like a heavenly space,
one so beautifully designed
with every creature abundantly placed
and the air sweet, so sweet to smell.

I felt that in this dream this night beyond most
I had a glimpse as it was before…
Before the ravages of man and greed
spent their days in desperate ways
to end the race to be next born.

No such luck for these fellow travellers to come
and find naught to entrance and enjoy,
but loss and sorrowful past tales
of what was and is not any more.

December 29th, 2013
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Shadow dancer


Shadow Dancer come to me
I want to be aware of who you are
when the lights are on.

Won’t you dance a joyful tune,
a melody of bliss.
I’m so tired of weariness,
hate and hurt and mess.

Life is so bleak upon this Earth,
tragedy enormous,
wars are man’s eternal joy
and peace an after thought.

But I am sure when this year is gone
another will burst forth.
But oh the worry
as the crops die brown
and the trees no longer tall.

Whatever will then become of man –
his own forever dead trail.

Take me home to a heavenly space
away from the doom and fear.
And shadow dancer who are you,
but my own misery upon a wall so bare.

December 13th, 2013
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For how long…


They came for me to listen
morning, night and in-between –
the dreaming state of an unknown territory,
but films endless into night and dawn.

So much knowledge
So much pain, delight and gain.
Promises unending, pleasure unknown,
but often illusionary, hapless, but desired.

The world changes little
the people claim their gold coin at others expense,
but there it goes as a coin unattended
rolling and swerving as it goes its own way
among the rubble and disdain,
the purgatory of man
until at last, the man no longer can keep levelled
by that passing opportunity, promise or delight.

The coin – our opportunity, ungathered,
lost on an endless unachievable roll.

What next…



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December 3rd, 2013
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Take me away

Take me away God, take me away. The valley you said was to be green no longer shades my mind and the valley, where ever did you say it is to be found? I have lost my bearings, the world I belong to disgusting and violent tiring me now for so very long. I have to make amends and find peace.

And what is your answer?

Do nothing but value the space, the person you are in.

What good I say is that to me humble and afraid to venture very far each day?
What good to be asking me to huddle here among so many other poor?
What good I say is it to be here where the violence surrounding us increases day upon day?

You are the arbiter of life’s world play why can you not do something about the violence surrounding us and plundering our resources, rich once they have said?

I know you are busy with other problems around the globe, but this that I am sitting in is a city of tents like old.
No way of rising above this muck, no way of coming up for air, there is so little without the foulness of human despair, detritus and such.

I want for my children a greater possibility than the one I am in where droves of others are starving trying to make amends and find some food before life ends.
I want to be worthy to leave them a legacy I am proud to have had and not this war of vengeance and crime the story of old and yet here it is, city bound and disgusting with other’s elite showering their wealth on old gold’s street.

You are the one, the man of ages old, can you not stop this vengeance, greed and horrible race

You are the one, the man of ages old, can you not stop this vengeance, greed and horrible race we are in now on that beat drumming away trying to stand, but feet fast paced stopped short by those very famous elite?

I want some significant worthy answers from you, you who had all my prayers on and off through my life time of working with those others, that of the elite, before I became victim of that horrible Wall’s street.

You are the arbiter, the crier of the poor. What relevance do you consider you are now to us here in the gutter of life’s richest few?
What a debacle that you among the many other gods around chose this country to flood with the poor, who, useless allowed them to be and to do whatever their little less conscience was able to achieve and only, I may add, because we and congressional agreement agreed.

God help the poor as they are to stand, whether able or not here they are gathering around. Warmth no comfort for what in their life’s end they are to leave let alone to those in higher places have formed.

No need to shed a tear my Lord for you are the victim, as we here in borrowed time.

November 27th, 2013
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