They Turned Their Gaze
They refused to face the eyes of their children
Poem: Syllabic 30
“After all, it’s not 1984
40 years must have taught us something more.” - Robert G Metivier, 2021
He
watched them
as
they passed
and tarried,
no one
the wiser.
Democracy
had failed them,
and so it seemed
little hope remained:
They turned their gaze.
No matter which path
the world might choose to take,
no one was winning;
this much was most certain.
Freedom had long been stolen
and would never return.
They blamed the others for this,
though each saw someone different;
in most ways they were the same.
Believed the lies of elite ones
that poisoned their common existence.
They looked to each other and said:
“What can we do? For now, it is too late!”
They turned the corner and passed through the gate,
and never looked back again to see
they had cast blind stares on their destiny.
They refused to face the eyes of their children,
who would never know what they had undone.
See also:
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