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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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