There are many ways for us to go.
We can go willingly or
fighting to the end,
most of us now somewhere on the willing end,
showing that we care
by denying ourselves
handshakes, hugs, kisses,
and even smiles
If I have no choice
then I choose for you
to hold me close while the damage is done.
Shield me with your smile
your handshake
your hug
and I will shield you with mine
Stand close to me.
Close enough that I can feel
the moisture and warmth in your breath.
Close enough that I remember I am not alone
that countless before us
have been very brave
and have conquered
We must be virulent in our Humanity
This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite challenge.
This was one of those times when I had no idea I was going to write anything at all until I had already set down a few words. I did not set the timer, but it is a freewrite that took around five minutes to compose; these are the words that came out. A bit of rearranging and tidying up went on before I hit "publish".
Thank you for reading my poem.
Take off your muzzles, breathe freely again, smile, and be not afraid. You will be so very glad you did.
image by @wales, Dean Moriarty
You weren't exaggerating: this is a beautiful poem @owasco 😊 Even if I personally still am "on the willing end", I do clearly see the way authorities all over the world are taking advantage of this situation to create their new society, their "new world order", if you will. I believe it was you who recently said how amazing it is that the entire world society is so easily and so quickly transformed, how readily we collectively change our behavior just because some "important person" says we have to. This is nothing short of alarming and we should all never stop thinking critically about what's being done to us right now. And that's another reason why this poem is a beauty; I hope everyone reads it, even just to spark the inner critic instead of that eternal inner voice that always agrees with us...
Thanks for posting this! 🙏🏼
And thank you for the tip!!!!
You know where I stand on this, we need to come together now like never before. I was watching a clip from a news show in Australia earlier where they were attacking those now wearing masks, with certain Doctors having their say whilst in front of a banner that said something a long the lines of our separation from one another, will bring us closer together. What a load of bullshit, but more and more is coming out, did you see the footage of the American Doctors earlier speaking out, it's great, keeps on getting taken down though xxx
This one? Whenever I find someone on FB who posted the youtube one that has been censored, I provide them with this.
https://peakd.com/hive-196427/@ura-soul/cxmsukym?fbclid=iwar1sjzaj-dd3jy2ggqbykzdrf9grvwipm6khskp_k61d9caaxfcpq-xjeno
Yes that is it, so glad to see it has been put on the Blockchain, it is so important that we share this and keep sharing it until more people wake up xxxx
FB is censoring the video too, but so far this version is still visible there.
I like that. A very powerful idea with all pun intended, I presume.
I just heard today that a dear teacher of mine died in one of our crappy hospitals, allegedly to covid-19. If the official version is true, I wonder if she might have done better had she be treated at home with some of the things that have been said are effective, instead of surrendering to a government that dumps people in indigent health facilities that do not facilitate anything. On the contrary, they aggravate whatever it is that you have.
This episode of the pandemic will go down in history as the most paradoxical health crisis of all time. So much technology, so much instant information, so much science and yet, we were sent back to the stone age.
Good point, which begs a huge question: why do we trust our medical "experts" if they still, after seven long months going on an eighth, still do not have one single thing that THEY can do to give us hope? We have all stopped pursuing our livelihoods, our dreams, our relationships, our schooling, our stress relieving past times. Our middle class businesses have been gravely harmed if not outright closed forever. Our loved ones die alone, no time to make amends or feel any love. But the experts still have not one single thing they can do. Yet we are letting these no nothing bozos dictate what we can and can not do, all over the world. Something is not right, and I believe we will not get any of our lives back until we take them back.
On another topic altogether, how have things gotten in Venezuela since the US has essentially declared war on your country? Is Maduro still the bad guy? I have to admit, I am impressed that he did not fall to the attempted coup (Guaido) earlier this year. Has your situation gotten even worse? The only news we get in the US is corona virus and politics, all teeming with obvious lies. No news of Venezuela at all.
I am really angry at the scientific community. I cannot believe that with the alleged rigor they rule their institutions and agencies, they can't agree on a single course of actions and neutralize any pseudo science that that is aggravating the problem.
About Venezuela, things are way worse, and maduro is the bad guy. He is the devil incarnate. He and all his croonies. Unfortunately for us the people who have acted as opposition so far are proving conspiracy theorists right. they seem to have more tights to the dictator than ever imagined.
As I have written elsewhere, I am fully aware of the USA historical screwups, but venezuela is one of those cases where it would have been mroe than justified and welcomed an intervention that could have put an end to a ruthless dictatorship that turned a state into a narco-state and has links with terrorist groups that sooner or later will seriously harm the USA from our land.
I have posted some street chronicles of the state of things. More poverty, more scarcity, more inflation, less health services, less protection of any kind for the average citizen. In the mean time all kinds of corruption scandals are being unconvered worldwide involving high ranking government officials and/or their figureheads. The amount of money those people have stolena nd the dirty business they have sponsored are unprecedented in political history. They must be toppled down. Unfortunatelly, the rest of the world seems to be rather ok with this and the USA has its own internal contradictions to deal with
Thank you for the elaboration. I'll go read some of your other posts on the matter.
It's hard to believe Venezuela could have gotten any worse. I'm so sorry to hear this.
Yes corruption at high levels world wide is a terrible problem, and probably has been since the earliest governments were ever formed. We can hope justice prevails, but if history is any indication, most of the bad guys will get off scot free.
Is there another election coming up in Venezuela that might get rid of Maduro? I don't like the idea of the US staging yet another coup in the world for you. That has never ever turned out well for the countries we do this in. You've got to fix it yourselves, that's the only way for the fix to hold. US sanctions can not be helping matters.
There are legislative elections due this year, but there are not guarantees that the elections will be fair.
I have said this many times. Venezuela is not a regular country/democracy where people can solve the problem by themselves, where you have check and balance among the different branches of government. Maduro and his gangsters control EVRYTHING, especially the military bodies. For years people have participated in all kinds of elections and protests. For years inocent people, especially young, have been killed in the streets, others are rotting in inhumane prisons and nothing happens: neither the whole population reacts in mass, or the military reacts and does the right thing, let alone the international community. Nothing changes. That's why more than 5 million venezuelans have left the country since 2003 (after it ws obvious that the government would turn totalitrian; 20,000 specialized workers were fired from the main oil company, PDVSA. They were substituted by more than 100,000 underqualified "workers" whose only duty was to make sure the company will be ideologially brainwashed. You check what's the state of that oil company now, in ruins).
We get this a lot and every time, after so much has happened, it is harder to respond to it
It sound easy and logical,but it cannot be done. People do not have weapons; the electoral body is controled by the government, the military is a the complete service of the government, all of the high rank miliraty are capos. We are not a regular democracy that can find its way back to normalcy in normaldemocratic processes.
The US is not a democracy either, especially not now with all the businesses owned by lower and middle classes unable to operate, schools closed, families unable to visit each other, churches unable to hold services, etc. Totalitarianism is everywhere. But half of us do have guns at at least, and I hear there are far more guns in the US than there are people. At times like these, I am a supporter of the second amendment big time. What happened to citizen guns in Venezuela?
So Venezuela has been difficult to live in since 2003? What happened then?
I'm hoping @dustsweeper comes along on this upvote!