No Escape
There is no longer anywhere.
Anyplace to run. To avoid necessity
of facing; oneself in mirrors.
No unexplained frontiers
unknown continents accessible;
to unexplored common man.
Ocean depths polar regions space.
Are only open to obtainable;
highly skilled. Specialized
individuals. With full corporate
backing; technology research grants.
None may venture forth alone.
This age demands; emotions
must be faced overcome.
With pressing need; in areas
never so cognitively challenged.
We can no longer escape
into labours; rhythm drudgery
or exhaustion of physical effort.
Technology; stripped bare
safety controls of muscular release.
Youth are forced; to face
modern culture in shock waves.
The world has become tame.
Yet frighteningly dangerous.
For savagery; stalks streets
of earth’s most advanced nations.
Resist the social exploitation;
and moral indifference;
feeding off industrial capitalism.
The wealth of a nation
is the private playground property;
of a privileged elite.
Nothing short of a social earthquake;
could pry their grip loose.
Mass fixed at jugular point.
Glass eyres where robber barons.
Guard their treasure chests;
overflowing with ill gotten gains.
Information base to stealth launch
campaigns of penetrating claws.
From college experience groom tools
to exploit suppressed masses;
are refined for material security.
Bachelors masters degree transport
for fast track recipient to heights;
of insider privilege power leadership.
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poem by Terence George Craddock
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