Christopher Flaherty Poet Free verse

Just Stop Oil

Just Stop Oil

" " PROTESTORS " "

Please 

Well go on then

If you are what you would have us believe

You say you are 

So dedicated and passionate about

Just Stoping Oil 

Here is an idea for you 

Why not take your show on the road 

To say the likes of
Saudi Arabia
Qatar 
Or
Russia

Since that is where the majority

Of the entire worlds Oil supply

Actually comes from

That might actually put a bit of a dent in it

Probably won't stop it though 

All you are succeeding in doing is making a

Mockery and fool

Of an actual

Serious subject

And cause

Performing and acting like spoiled children 

With their attention seeking stunts 

Actually doing the polar opposite

Achieving far more harm 

Than they are good 

How about they

Just Stop

And come up with something anything else

A tad little more intelligent

That doesn't actually put people off

Like preventing a dying patient in the present

Here and now from being able to get to hospital

In order to save their life and get critical urgent care 

If you care so much about saving lives

As you pretend to be

Can you explain what exactly qualifies

And who gave you the right

To decide both their imminent and families fate

And play God with other people's lives

That in real terms is tantamount to being

Oilier than the Oil you want to stop

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David Kavanagh July 22, 2023 at 7:13 AM I agree Christopher they really are a right lot of oily attention seekers, none of them even seem to work let alone need a job, I think they’re more narcissists than protesters, they’d be shot on sight in any of the major oil producing countries you mentioned, excellent work, cheers David Christopher Flaherty July 24, 2023 at 8:54 AM They really don't seem to be or come across as a nice bunch. They only seem to care about themselves and don't give a stuff about anyone else be damned the consequences

Jan Allison July 12, 2023 at 4:14 PM well said, and of course it makes you wonder how do they actually travel to these events they are disrupting so badly and it wont be long before someone is killed by their stupidity. hugs Janxx Christopher Flaherty July 12, 2023 at 4:52 PM Hi Jan good evening If they did they would think of it or probably wear it as a badge of honor. I really don't think they give a damn or care at all apart from themselves. As so worried are they supposedly about saving lives in the future which no one can predict. They are willing to sacrifice some poor souls life in the present here and now on the way to hospital. Who's life they somehow or other deem to be irrelevant and in charge of their fate above the cause of saving so called lives in the future. How do they know that person could or couldn't be someone who at a later date wouldn't say invent or come up with a solution to the problem