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May We Use These Troubled Days to Bring Out the Best Qualities in All of Us [1]

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Date: 2025-05-16

May We Use These Troubled Days to Bring Out the Best Qualities in All of Us

"Holding a cat, its sacred purr reverberating

against my breasts,

watching the sunset in the sky of Nut

and on the waters of the Nile,

in communion with Ra's

mighty beams as they fade

into the purple robes of Neb-t heru's night."

– from hieroglyphs of an unknown woman.

Shouldn't we all one day stand so in Egypt,

instead the world is collapsing, once again,

half of us waking up to fight the coming fascism,

the other half asleep, still enthralled and bowing

to a trickster god supported by too many high priests

of political power and the aristocracy named

the one-percent, the billionaires, the oligarchy.

Social agreements broken, treaties reneged –

a madman brags of gold-plating his palace walls

as he steals the lunch money of school children

everywhere... we are deemed the enemy,

the new native class, slave class, serfs to serve

the "special geniuses" of inherited wealth

and self-appointed privileged overlords

created by their theft

of the productive work of regular peoples,

even now they are emptying the country's coffers

and siphoning the wealth from public lands.

States are telling teachers to lie to students

with the threat of job loss, incarceration

and, behind the scenes, a penalty of death,

as ancient religious texts and

modern propaganda become the curriculum

of shared knowledge for the minds of youth.

Women are being placed back into shackles,

controlled by men – their only deemed value

is in the seeding of their wombs

and the fruits thereof.

What can we do, but join the battle of light against dark

armed, not yet, with pitchforks and automatic weapons,

instead, like Hobbits of our time using:

courage and kindness, truth and love as our guides

during this climatic upheaval, when the planet is shouting:

"Adapt, change, create and find your better natures

for a new way to exist on this world."

©2025 Carl Scott Harker

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