Sweden today
What happened to Sweden throwing off her neutrality like it was an old overcoat and to make matters worse joining old NATO, that is a moribund military organization.
I remember Ingrid Bergman, a great actress when I see her, I wonder, why Ricky had
a nightclub in Casablanca
There were many famous Swedes, such as Alfred Nobel, and Ingmar Bergman, and not forget Birgitte Nielsen married to an actor named Rocky Stalone, a screen hero
I remember Malmo where I bought coffee cups
With flowers on, now this town is full of angry belligerent Islamists wanting to enforce Shari law and run around with big knives
Of course, there is the forever teenager Greta Thunberg who wears a permanent scowl when marching in protest against the EU or if not something else; one wishes, she would fall in love, have sex with a young man, and go back to school
Alfred Nobel
You had the mind for art and science,
shared business interest with your father,
not broken even when you lost your brother –
will to achieve by work inspired.
You built a fortune and empire,
busy yet lonely in affairs.
Metaphysical reality
in life of struggle you acquired.
You changed the lives of many people,
sensitive was your noble spirit:
the poet, peace maker and scientist.
Entire mankind you enabled
with gift of fortune, nobility.
You changed the world and our reality.
© A. R.Wielgus 2014
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