I was bought in the wrong epoch
The world is running backwards
History repeats with
Better technology
And worse intentions
I want to scream with no lungs
A soundless howl that
Tears the air apart
Something wakes in my chest
When I see
How broken everything is
How backwards
How cruel
How deliberate
The earth indiscernible
From hell some days
Borders made of blood and concrete
People in power who should
Never have been given power
At all
Ever
I scroll through infinite
Proof of human failure
Share what I can
When I can
My small rebellion of forwarding The suffering of strangers
Because silence is complicity
And action feels like
Throwing stones at tides
But it’s never enough
Is it?
I don’t want this epoch of cruelty
Masquerading as civilisation
When kindness is weakness
And greed is called ambition
When children beg for water
While men negotiate for land
When history rhymes
With its worst verses
When the same monsters
Wear different faces
I was meant for a time that
Hasn’t arrived yet
A century ahead maybe more
When progress means something
When we’ve learned what we’re
Obviously not learning now
When we've stopped being
Afraid of each other
And started being afraid
For each other
Instead I’m here
Watching the slow motion car crash
Of humanity driving itself
Off the same cliffs
It drove off before