Sanctions and Embargoes
The sounds of Silence
because
the sounds of money poring into coffers
it roars
shakes wriggles and roars
i hear
money pouring into Pakistan
to keep it out of the hands of radicals
why?
nuclear wareheads
and?
it whispers
shshshshshshshsh
power
feeding the enders
it's only when we pour money and FORCE into them that we give them life
if we turned away
to create new possibilities
anew
oil is the past
we turn away tomorrow
the hate
it annihilates
that's the job of hate and fear
it self-distructs
and if it has nothing to feed on but its own internal problems ?
maybe it can subside into something creative
it's only alive now
because we're feeding it
with our fear
with the sucking sounds of our engines
greeeed
feeding tyrants and torturers
rather than look somewhere else for its income
if WE turn away
so Pakistan has nuclear weapons
so a radical group takes control
who who who
really has to run
who has to limit them
quick
who
who is really at risk?
because radicals don't have sides
they have hates
and fears
and pockets
and pockets need to be fed
DIALOGUE
trade without coercion
What are we upholding ?
communities that are working for the best intersts of the people?
or industries that feed radicals
who bomb their own children
they have reason to want us out
and we should head reason and move out
let them face their children alone
and maybe
to look our children in the eyes
alone
to plant something new
seeds
ideas
and dreams
of a self-expressed future
children playing in the streets
dancing free
art and music and architecture
tinkling glasses
swirling rythms carved with light brushes
stone turrets of swirling delight
singing
a love dance a sword and a glass
time
to build schools, and roads, and industries
tick tock
and
new beginnings
aleph