Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

Incredulity

Incredulity


I draw in oxygen
The sweet and foul odours
The same as you
I breathe
And in its life giving rapport
I exist
Of blood exchanges in corpuscle energies
Transmitted
Maintains
Thoughts awareness and grasp
On immediacy
Existential
In its poetry

Life

But it is with a sense of the incredulous
In which I view
Human life
Separated as we are to self indulgence
Family units
Singular identities
Arrogant; self-centred; egoisms
Of division

View as we do Individualities
And not an Earth bound community

And I have to ask myself
What has “life” been replaced with
Because “life” by this our modern definition of
Is a pitifully poor excuse
And a pathetic attempt
At living

And our banal self-sacrament 
To something greater than this
Is a cosmic joke
While the isolation for us all merely deepens
We defend our own

 View as we do Individualities
And not an Earth bound community

These edicts of capitalist religions
Ply us with the answers to nothing
But keep us going
And ever entering the supermarket cathedrals
Of our faith in God and Money

We; the human commune
Are torn apart from fellowship
By the unrequited need to survive
In a world that makes us pay its price
For existence

And all, all are so enamoured of cultural surety
That this could be, the only way to be
That we drown and survive
Between riches and poverty 

View as we do Individualities
And not an Earth bound community

It is a sickened and dire state in which we find ourselves
Yet still clinging desperately
To our only explanation of ourselves
This feeding upon a planets wealth
To support our own twisted vision
Of ourselves

And beneath the black blood of society
The cancer grows
For deep in our hearts each one of us knows
The inalienable right
The potential of every Earth born child

I look on with Incredulity
At the sheer volume of greed and waste
That humanity accepts
As being “normal”

View as we do Individualities
And not an Earth bound community

I draw in oxygen
The sweet and foul odours
The same as you
I breathe
And in its life giving rapport
I exist
Of blood exchanges in corpuscle energies
Transmitted
Maintains
Thoughts awareness and grasp
On immediacy
Existential
In its poetry

Life

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