AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: the dying Economy

Last week after the markets closed
We heard the most unearthly scream.
Collectively we pinched ourselves
To make sure it was not a dream.

And sure enough the scream was real
There was no doubt; it had to be.
It came from us as we all watched
The dying god, Economy.

Yes on the dollar bill it says,
For everything "In God we trust."
But that's because to God we pray,
"Don't let Economy go bust."

With money and the things it buys
We try to fill the void within.
It can't be done but we believe
Without it emptiness will win.

More money to fulfill "The Dream"
Has been for us our only care.
Economy's demise will mean
"The Dream" becomes a real nightmare.

If all of us do not wake up,
About the void we do not learn,
We'll keep our 'god' on life support,
Each day our nightmare will return.

Economy
ECONOMIC REPORT 11/08
ECONOMIC ABSURDITY

WAR on CRIME

"They" say we'll win the war on crime.
Of them I ask, what is the cost?
Do we keep adding more police
Until our freedom is all lost?

What is the price per capita
Of all the safety that we buy?
It's going up; will we go broke
Before we ask the reason why?

When spending stops then we will find
The war on crime has not been won.
For we will see all hell break loose
When our restraints all come undone.

As long as we keep our own plots
We will continue to grow crime,
That though "they" say we can control,
It will destroy us over time.

To create peace we can't wage war
On crime or any other foe.
It's only when we plant our 'seeds'
In common ground that peace will grow.

GOD'S VOICE

S. Palin says she hears God's voice.
But if we checked I think we'd find
It's not God's voice but echos of
Thoughts she's created in her mind.

George said he heard God's voice as well.
He said God told him to attack.
I'm quite sure though if George heard God
There wouldn't be war in Iraq.

Nor would there be a Taliban
If fighters listened to Allah.
In fact if all of us heard God
Existence would inspire awe.

For anyone who hears God's voice
Will not divide society;
Since if God speaks, God's voice will say,
"I'm God of all humanity."

God; God's will; God's message

GREEN SHIFT

Environmental green shift plans
Are all the present rage.
The fight to clean up where we live;
A war that we must wage.

It is no doubt a worthy goal
To be pollution free;
But we can't save our Mother Earth
And not humanity.

Although clean up is not in vain
The focus is misplaced.
We should look for the reason why;
A source that can be traced.

To save ourselves we must clean up
The reasons why we live.
It's only when we take from them
That to life we can give.

The "why" we live which dominates,
That's left our earth destroyed;
With money and the stuff it buys
We try to fill the void.

It is a task that can't be done
No matter how we try.
If we persist then it will be
The reason that we die.

Removing from our lives this waste
Will not just leave them clean.
Environmentally we'll make
The needed shift to green.

COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE CRASH
Cancun: COP 16
ECONOMY

CANADIAN ELECTION

The snap election has been called.
The media no longer wait;
And we all sit by our TV
To watch the leaders recreate.

At least four leaders make the case
For all Canadians they speak.
It might appear the choice is good.
In fact it makes us very weak.

United in a cause, we stand.
Divided by our views we fall.
Though now it might not seem like it
If we don't change we'll hit the wall.

We can not go our separate ways
And not at sometime come apart.
The more we carve our country up
The sooner we will break her heart.

It's not our leaders' fault you know.
They speak for those who let them lead;
And we don't know the way to go
So thatreal life we won't impede.

It's farce at best to watch them huff
Espousing theories that we trust
To be the truth despite the fact
That with our death they turn to dust.

And rather than have intercourse
We just perpetuate the strife
With one more meaningless debate
That can't for us create new life.

On the election night there'll be
Some twenty million votes for sale,
Three hundred million dollars spent;
No matter, chaos will prevail.

DEMOCRATIC SELF-DESTRUCTION