Word Problem:
What is the political
and economic
and moral difference
between a -1 communist concentration camp
and a +1 capitalist detention camp?
Hint:
Probably the same Christian taxpayer difference
between
-0 (emptiness):
SUBTRACT empowering hope
for a healthy democracy,
Red and Yellow
Black and White
they are precious
in His sight
and
+0 (fullness):
ADD disempowering despair
of stealthy stupid kleptocracy,
pitching Red against Yellow
Black against White
liberal SkyBlue anthropocentric dreams
against conservational EarthGreen realities
Economically unsafe
and politically unhealthy
MotherEarth
laid to waste,
dark stark global disrepair.
Capitalist detention camp distinctions
without communist concentration camp differences
DeGenerative World Problem UnSolution:
a +1 v -1 Total-itarian risk.
ReGenerative Word Problem ReSolution:
a Win/Win +0 and -0 CoBinary
Making Earth Great Again
healthy democratic CoIntelligent
ecological-economic opportunity.
We know your game
And we are not going to become slaves to it
We've seen you spin your lies like a spiders Web
Your crimes of deceit will come back to smite you
The heavens will rain down on you
There is no escape from eternity
Hear these words said
Let them infest your head
Your silence will betray you
Days will turn to nights
Insomnia will plague you
Like darkness it will consume you
The weight of your actions will crush you
The pain you've inflicted on black people
Will come back to haunt you
Forever waiting in the shadows to spook you
You will know no peace in life and death
This is a promise
A warning
And a threat
What you've done to my people
Is inexcusable
Roots tangled in the soil,
Truth withers in shadowed light,
Answerability falls.
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Do you ever hold yourself accountable,
or only measure the aftermath, never the cause?
Do you notice when my love fades,
yet stay blind to the weight of my unhappiness?
Do you see my worth in the dreams I build,
or only in the distance I keep?
Do you recognise the effort in the little things,
or do they slip past, unnoticed?
Do you want me, yet believe I am replaceable?
Do you seek faith, yet twist it into doubt?
Do you feel blindsided by my rage,
or did you never see the slow burn before the fire?
Do you aim to try harder,
or is mediocrity enough for you to call it living?
Self-reflection is only half of the work. The full work is owning up and taking action. Don't abuse the power of grace you give yourself.
Created to be different to bring about a generational change
Trauma invoked to keep most from creative conscious range
Learning being different can bring in a great feeling
It's imperative for the need to work on inner healing
That inner child help develop creative healthy happy adults
Taking chances to heal, help the experience for those results
Don't stay in the cycle of programmed victimization mode of pain
Get help to find tools and resources to turn your pain into a gain
Take accountability for your role you played while blaming/pointing a finger
Easy to blame another, sometimes they had no part of the sadness or anger
The masks worn and swopped due to your unhealed trauma
Hides a grudge that blames friends, lovers, daddy and momma
Forgive them, they experienced and lived through trauma too
Reflected their own stories, hiding with pain too shame to tell you
Each generation has suffered through the abuse and trauma program
Become your generations' survivor with the future blueprint or diagram.
Being responsible for your actions and your decisions and following through on the outcome
The Lies you tell me and then tell yourself
the way you act as a victim in your own web of hell
and if I call out your horse- , you will blame and throw a fit
you cut me with your behavior and words and then don't expect me to bleed
you then after much confrontation say sorry as if it will add to your good deed
its time to make this right and I am done not standing up
So I am going to hold you accountable for these actions that has caused all this mess-up.
No one gives you food
When you're able to do so,
Work out your own good.
Why is accountability so allusive to mankind?
I think that many of us forget, that God is not blind.
There is always an excuse, an easier path to take.
Will our deception anger God, or make his heart break?
Can’t all be forgiven, why must we show disdain?
Practice what you preach, so your work is not in vain.
I had to learn to let go
I had to understand how to move on
Needed her to leave
In order for me to be free
Times when I’m alone
I just wanna text her
And start all over again
But clean slates don’t exist
I made boundaries for me to heal
But I keep breaking them down
Can’t focus on myself if I’m
Trying to fix what happened with us
It’s best to leave in peace
Instead of staying in anger
I made my mistakes, now
I gotta be held accountable
If I add you back
Please block me
If I try to talk to you
Please just ignore me
It’s the hardest lessons
That makes us stronger
I saw it coming, like
New morning in May, when
I ventured out, and hugged the air -
For the universe was waiting, while
Its pool of plenty said, breathe
I then sought the Almighty, who
Boost everyone's battery
From booze as drugs, and
Toys, like pseudo joy.
I vowed to submit to life refreshed
To crave such natural high
I would need no other fix
Just one touch, like
Holy Spirit dew of spring rain
Giving garden growth, to a lifeless flower.
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Jealousy turns to rage that we bottle up inside
Where the demons are at work punishing you for all of your lies
I can say I told you so or that I knew that this was coming
And I even tried to convince myself intuition wasn't cunning
I'm just as foolish going along with it as they say sh I t comes in pairs
So why elect to circumvent a task then blame me why should I care?
I've been through way too much to fall for this it's not a game just a season
You drive me crazy go away you imp, you humonculus, just go away you demons!
gathering and bruising typhoon rain
purrs the pain
jumping off the tracks blind locomotive train
wreck to maime
blooding noses quicker than white caine
ignorance pickled conductors always feign
with hands stained red from another man's ration of grain
predictable as the charted tides of Maine
mismatching words and actions lead the cause of insane
intent should be printed clear and plain
January 12, 2021
Suzette Prime Poetry Contest
Emile Pinet
When positions of authority
Blatantly abuse their power
Telling you what you’re seeing
Isn’t what it appears to be
We need accountability.
When the murderers wear badges
But skip the silver bracelets
And orange jumpsuits and
Remain free to kill again
There should be accountability.
Too much has gone on
For too long to too many
Man’s law isn’t enough.
So justice can truly be served
Why isn’t there accountability?
We shouldn’t have to fight
Day in and day out
Simply for the right to breathe
We’re all human beings
Yet there’s no real accountability.
I pray each night for lives lost
At the hands of those
Who had sworn to protect
I pray God comes and restores order
So there will be accountability.
Something’s gotta give.
© 6/27/20 JJSmalls
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