Optimism And Positivism Poem by John Sensele

Arise sanity, arise sobriety and release maturity
In a world teeming with brevity, depravity and anxiety
Sown by a rat race, an egotism brace, a cynicism trace for fads
Spun around by spin doctors, proctors and emulators whose brands
Highlight the flight of doubt and gout alongside bandwagons
Flying flags of inconvenience and incontinence when paragons
Of virtue reserve far more space and offer an embrace
Not of a romantic or platonic type but of a cryptic race
That pervades, persuades, grades, trades and invades every pore of the brain
In a bid to harmonise, summarise, surprise and sanitise the train
In which the future of humanity and humankind revels and travels
In guaranteed security, certainty and immunity towards a destiny that dribbles
Trivia, drivel, trinkets, caskets, trash and short termism
In favour of long termism, stoicism, optimism, and humanism.