Axis of Evil

 Tired and complacent working

too hard to lift my head up

speak up, push up against it.

Its just how the two percent

of the world’s wealthiest

people want it

running governments

and business and guns

dictating the use of resources

creating little wars

to settle scores 

mafia-like familia tantrums

seems inescapably, densely complex

powerful, uninhibitable

invisible yet omnipresent

running the whole show backstage

while we act out the rage

of our lives, working, worrying,  

showing up for our day

jobs, for life

or for war and death

taking our orders

from boardroom generals

oblivious and out-resourced

unable to keep up even

as we see we are

losing the freedom, the liberty

to edit the script

rewrite the lines, alter destiny.

But why worry?

Yin to Yang. Yang to Yin.

May take 300 years - maybe less.

In nature it is never

high noon or midnight

longer than that moment -

a reassuring and terrible thought.