New Normal Poem by John Sensele

In the new normal, innocent children
Lose their lives without provocation
As killers and their bloody brethren
Inflict on global societies a fatal sanction.

In the new normal, improvised explosives
Detonate at concerts, at football stadia where pleasure
Transmutes into a reign of pain as sieves
Of terror delete room meant for leisure.

In the new normal, demagogues label climate change
A hoax because ignorance earns followers
In powerful countries where binge
Thinking denies the existence of beauty and splendor in flowers and showers.

In the new normal, protectionism holds sway
Granting extremists and fascists room
To impose their insane ideology on a way
Of life to catalyse doom and gloom.