This was inspired by a visit to the local art gallery where there was an exhibition by a young local artist, Cory Du Muth ; one of Du Muth’s text & watercolour portraits depicted a young man wearing a T- shirt saying ‘died at 20…buried at 70’…

“Through text and watercolour portraits, Corey De Muth's series is a close observation of young men who belong to a generation that is at the fragile endpoint of the decline of western civilisation. While they may be at different places, they share a common link; the awareness of a generation -a society- doomed.”

…. I was deeply moved by the exhibition so much so that that I wrote the following poem and another which can be found in my blogs….

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

Chinese Proverb

Stop!

open your eyes

unblock your ears

forget everything

you’ve ever been told

by media-mongrels

and partisan-politicians ….

even they don’t believe

 the crap that spews

from their own

deceiving tongues…

do you not know

 that each generation will reap

what the former generation

has sown…?

tarnished platitudes

and counterfeit smiles

narcissistic attitudes

and deceitful eyes

a blanketing of whispers

to hide their lies…

it’s bad enough

they lie to us

why perjure your own soul?

it’s impossible to miss the truth

all species that share this world

still face extinction…

troubled youths

still give up the fight

at the end of a rope…

babies still die

the aged ones cry

the disenfranchised wonder why…

is there no hope for redemption

for coexistence

for global peace

will my inner turmoil ever cease…

it’s not enough that I care

…what can I do to repair

a world swamped by despair….

sharonlee©

12/4/11