The Circle Never Ends
No beginning or ending
the start is attached to the ending
never gets carried away
by opportunists
slick talkers
capitalists trained to think
only of the profit to be made.
Religion doesn’t emerge
because it has a new doctrine
religion is the basis of habit
revealing what we do not want
to see in ourselves
even though we might pledge
our lives to a better future.
We are what we have become
in all the years we have been here
no beginning or end
—-even when we die
we shall be remembered
for what we left behind
what we have inspired
purchased and sold.
If you sit in a chair
and can’t get out
that’s where you’ll die
if no-one wants to pull you
out
if your legs will not stand
you will sit and stay seated
and after you have finished
breathing you will not speak
or hear
so who will wash your body
who will write your poems
pay your bills care for your grand-children
who will be the teachers
heal the sick — love the unloved
who will have the strength
to lift lifeless bodies
rotting on the battlefield
who will report the end of life
on this planet
when no-one is here to notice
the everlasting night following day
the unheard silence or thunder.
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