Procrastination

is how we fool ourselves
that we have more time
than we actually have.

Civilisation

is the thin veneer of hope
rendered ever thinner
by the unawareness
of life-style choice.

Relative Values In Space

Children are small satellites
who encircle dizzy parents
until they outgrow their space,
and spin out of their old orbit.
In adulthood they gain
the gravity of planets,

adrift in the vacuum of space
where when their turn is done
they turn to dust.

Putting The 'War' Into 'Awareness'

In Pakistan Afghanistan and Iraq
do they wonder where their country went,

in the target-rich environment?
When before the faith and the land
was simply what they had?

Where once their silence
for their being the sites of proxy wars worked for them
now there are only wails of grief
as what was once sent as relief 
turns to acts of torture. 

Watch

and what you see is what you will become.

Walt Disney,

that pornographer of innocence,
said of  his cartoon 'Fantasia' (USA 1939),
'This film will make Beethoven's reputation'.

For all the corporate myth making
who is the better known artist now?

'The Invisible Hand of the Market'

flatters us to deceive -

tells us to labour and conceive-
and not be delivered-

so whatever we do
we are trim in the weave
of the Emperor's New Clothes.