John Passant Poet Blank verse

The Smoke

The smoke

Smoke engulf us
Your smoke, Prime Minister
Born of climate and change
My rage knows its new bounds
Found in truth

You deny that reality
The reality of life, ordinary life
But what would you know of our existence?
In your bubble of denial
A river of lies flow
Media unchallenged
Because you have power
How?

How could these deniers win?
My head swims, at the liars in charge
And the Official Opposition
Like my urine tube
But not even as useful as
This pissing machine
Full of it, and 

Oh Australia, oh world
We stride closer and closer
To the end of all
I cannot breath well
This is your hell, PM

It will not end well
Unless we rise up
Our day is coming
Must come
Then they and their change are done

If it does not
We are over
Their we and our we
Free, of all humanity,
Of ourselves
Or free of them
And then to reclaim life, living and humanity
Oh to be free
Free from climate change
From exploitation
Truly free, can we be?

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Caren Krutsinger December 28, 2019 at 12:15 AM I really want to know what is going on down there. I may have to make a trip. "Oh Australia, oh world We stride closer and closer To the end of all I cannot breath well This is your hell, PM" - heartfelt! John Passant December 29, 2019 at 4:40 PM Now Monday morning and it is hotting up. Will be high 30s (C) in Canberra and our haze is worse. My wheezing (asthma) is worse today. John Passant December 28, 2019 at 12:36 AM Fires everywhere. The smoke has eased today (Saturday) but predictions are the weather will get even warmer in the next few days. So although the the predictions are the smoke haze will lift by Monday, or be gone, we shall see.