T Wignesan Poet Villanelle

Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 32

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 32

Ask them who brought this World to the brink of doom
Why what they say now they didn’t at COP1
Ask them if they can really reverse tides that loom

Ask them why on elections’ eve they turn new broom
Do leaders come of age at fresh twenty-one
Ask them who brought this World to the brink of doom

Ask them why farewell speeches seem studied gloom
Who put in relief the joke on succession
Ask them if they can really reverse tides that loom

Ask them why campaign speeches bloom way from home
What if the next leader’s gun-oil Republican
Ask them who brought this World to the brink of doom

Then ask yourself why some need others to groom
Need other leaders to prove they are Number One
Ask them if they can really reverse tides that loom

Ask them clean energy spells doom for whom
Who stands to gain what greenhouse gases consume
Ask them who brought this World to the brink of doom
Ask them if they can really reverse tides that loom

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2015

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Chula Fleming June 16, 2017 at 7:43 AM Congrats on your featured poem. Very thought provoking. T Wignesan June 16, 2017 at 7:58 AM Hello, Chula! Very kind of you to stop by for a read. And for the congrats. I have myself less and less time even for my own work, and I'm always guilt-ridden whenever (thankfully which is rare) some one or other Souper knocks on my door. I know this sounds like a lame excuse, but that's the way when one gets older and older things turn out. Warm thanks. Every good wish. Wignesan