Uncertainty Mentality

POETRY

A poem about today’s world

In a world gone mad
Insecurity and fear gone rife
Men quake and stumble
In dread of the next news and quandaries
Each day to its own tale of troubles
As all ponder on the morrow’s sure crisis

Fear, uncertainty, violence, and dread
Acrimony, angst, discord, and vice
Dispute, despair, discouragement, and disarray
Enmity, evil, apathy, and envy
In a world rife with distrust and suspicion
The tinder is set but with a match to light

Men of peace and goodwill
Stand bewildered and flummoxed
Staring in unbelief at our human propensity
For willful degradation and destruction
While conscienceless men of violence
Seek opportunities for mayhem and confusion
Is this the world we will bequeath our children and grandchildren?

Leaders and men of means and influence
Act with brazen impunity and disregard
Their hearts seared devoid of empathy
Desensitized to the weight of their sacred responsibility
They cast off their robes of sanctity and service
Unleashing terror on lesser mortals, kith, and kindred

Who will deliver the world from itself?
Each man acting at will and at his pleasure
Forgetting that our joint actions are weighty with repercussions
Who will deliver the world from itself?
When world leaders terrorize their own people
Making war at will and decimating nations
When men of peace and goodwill are at a loss
Helpless, hopeless, beaten, and overcome
Who will deliver the world from itself?
Is it the next generation or we?

© Imabong Faminu, 2020

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