Geoffrey Brewer Poet Rhyme

Affliction

AFFLICTION?
It is said of young physicians when they first set out to learn
All the symptoms and conditions that known illnesses convey
They perceive these indications each one causing more concern
‘Til they make the diagnosis to their shock and their dismay
They arrive at the conviction
They themselves have the affliction

Now when learned academics write a thesis that proclaims
All white people are infected with a racism endemic
Filled with symptom and with signs supporting dogma that defames
Fragile folk are then persuaded by this plausible polemic
And arrive at the conviction 
We’re all guilty of affliction 

What could be more direful to survival of this blessed sphere
Than wild nature, once benign, by human feckless acts betrayed!
“See the wild fires, melting icebergs and the hurricanes!”- we hear
Computer forecasts yet sole factors we can truly call ‘man made’
Should we therefore have conviction
Of a terminal affliction?

Data now in a profusion never seen before these times
Flood our eyes and ears and minds in ‘monu-mental’ mind-bate range
Those with focussed strong agenda choose a menu that defines
And steers us, if undiscerning and from reason then estranged
To unquestioning conviction
THAT in truth would be affliction

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Quoth Theraven April 24, 2021 at 12:31 PM Geoffrey, So glad when the day's work is done and I can read a Rhyme to lift the fog. Is it might makes right, or is truth? Luckily poetry wields both. Poetry has little use for hard water stained cause found in forecasts, polls, and data. -Richard Geoffrey Brewer April 24, 2021 at 5:32 PM Richard, my gratification at receiving your response is reward indeed for my Rhyme. Thank you.

Joseph P. DiMino April 7, 2021 at 10:09 AM Brilliant poetry. Outstanding and wise! We are what we see and hear. Unfortunately the Marxist use this best, for the good and decent are too busy, loving, living and shunning control of others for the sheer sake of power. Sadly, we are forced to fight back. It sickens most of us. Especially those who have fought major wars before. Geoffrey Brewer April 10, 2021 at 1:51 PM Thank you for kind response, Joe. Your feedback is much appreciated as always.