An Age in Retrospect (Take 3)

1963

“A king loved by his subjects had a dream…to found a new Camelot…

it was only a dream.”

A man ready to reveal that hidden from the world

a beacon against the darkness

on show to his happy people, banners unfurled.

“Oh the folly of dangerous days.”

The empire of shadows were displeased

and struck down the ‘truth-giver’ with treacherous ease.

"Deceptive wars were being fought on false fronts,

the enemy was not the enemy

they were like the rest, just prey in a global hunt."

1966

The World turned with LSD and Mescaline mind

founding a new revolution of the Aquarian kind.

Warriors with gestalt awareness protested

as minstrels sang a song of freedom

an illusion as best can be attested.

“While in marbled halls, the pillars of power

echoed with a tuneless Straussian waltz.”

1970-2000

The cauldron of culture grew and grew,

into the pot went the industries of the popular,

economic growth, and a war or two.

All the essential ingredients

in a recipe of distractions,

needed for a human stew.

Designed to keep enquiring minds

from knowing what we knew

that was reserved for the chosen few.

“And so like the Salmon eating its way up it’s birthing rapids,

hungry to die, we rushed toward technocratic utopia.

Lost in our hubris, unaware of the paradigm shift,

like the Atlantean’s  past.  And like them, for us,

it was too late, the die had been cast.”

A New Millennium dawn…

The Sun rose with new hope above the horizon of need

but it was just another illusion from a century of greed.

And when Jachin and Boaz fell

before Liberty amidst the crystal canyons

of the American dream…well?

“The cabal went cherry-picking in the orchard

of ill-gotten gains, and for their pains,

were rewarded with a fine harvest

of weapons of mass deception

which they used to Stove-pipe

a smoking gun with rumours

of mushroom clouds

emitting from unsafe actors

clothed in poor mans shrouds.”

The World present day...

Watching our imagined reality on digitised TV,

And there, in our blindness we see,

‘Another murder, another bombing’

the new religion the politics of the gun.

Conjecture and confusion, adds to the mix

enhances the illusion, adds to the fun.

chaos and disorder parameters set by the ‘New World Order’

in a communication revolution

…or a devolving of human evolution?

Under panoptic control

the agencies of light and dark

now fight for your very soul.

…Welcome to the beginning of the End of Times.

“…And cut! That’s a wrap!”

P. Williams ©2005&06