Today’s challenge : a rant or complaint about something .
Go softly with me tonight
my head aches with all this noise
of suicide bombs – explosions
that fill my head with shrapnel
rat-tat-tat of alms, images, arms
in tatters and mounds- wherever
all over, filled with surround- sound
Go gently with me tonight
my vision has become very blurred,
stop the many words, too many books
information overload, if you please-
stop that tweeting and scrolling
that deedle-de-dumbed down ringtone
Go carefully with me tonight
no more corpses left piled in heaps
no other hungry mouths left to feed
no further adulation of one human being
what about the rest who follow ourselves
no paparazzi flash-shooting our selfies
no platinum albums or lemonade to drink
Walk straight with me tonight
had enough of fake politicians’ lies
thinking we’re stupid and dumb
retorting in silent protest so that
the polls, won’t hear- what lies-
in our hearts, our bottomless soles
lost without the feet of our souls
Chevvy's diary 