Apathy
You google lavish Porsche sipping Latte,
plump fingers scrolling fancy images,
thermostat stuck at a fixed temperature,
you glower at the assistant for pending checkup,
awaiting deals of millions to boast with greed.
Pulse rate soars with flickering prices,
you yell at your screen, "It sucks!"
I wish you'd googled the phrase
and know what really sucks.
A boy who spent years at the crematorium
witnessing teary families among pools of churned corpses,
on morose blue nights with howling wolves
vultures screeching for food in a desolate barren forest
now the unnamed body hit by your car--
a word for your ignorance, your insensitivity.
That man in your office spent years slogging for you
to find an abode for his family, pay his bills in peace;
sighing under indebted loans couldn't afford the lawsuit
you'd filed against him for creating an old age home
at the land you'd always wanted
crumbling under your tyranny, died last week,
his family now stranded in this city--
a word for your indifference, your insanity.
They haven't use that word
they know what really sucks.
You've signed a deal for millions
with those in dictating power
of weapons, drugs and tools,
spewing hazardous venom indeed
to people in every country,
you celebrate this victory,
a masked Red dragon awakens;
yet when wars are waged
calamities descend on lands
diplomats express fake condolences
you'll join them in charades
vile progressions to paint in red
the world with blood-soaked money,
laughing at those who suffer--
a word for your monstrosity.
You keep your fingers crossed and wish for an antidote to cure
burning lands afar in greed; your thermostat and Porsche
could save you until then but honey do you ever wonder
what would you say when flames drape your paradise
and you believe it sucks; it really does..
August 12, 2020
It sucks Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kai Michael Neumann
Copyright © Aditi Mishra | Year Posted 2020
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