Vision Of Our Future Poem by Stephen Esric Loomes

Vision Of Our Future

The movie makers and novelists
Sell you their fear
Because they can't see a way out
So they project their fearful vision
To fill the world with doubt
Their imagined 'future' is fearful myopia
Their films, books and preaching, describe dystopia
Whether it's Cormac on his road
Hopeless mayhem and terror
Or the religion's prediction of a 'Second Arrival'
While those with money plan their own survival
Religions, movies and activists the same
Creating a self-fulfilling future,
While maintaining, that they're not to blame
Meanwhile the world keeps on turning
The saviour hasn't come, despite many occasions
When most of the world has been burning
If you are true to yourself, it is easy to see
No human being knows what the future will be
So why aren't the mind-shapers giving us hope
Instead of surviving an apocalypse
Let them, and us, envisage a new trope
Where dismantling weapons and armies occurs
When the script predicts a future without wars
Paint a vision of caring for others
As though they are sisters and brothers
Tending gently with the earth
Like we were cared for by our mothers
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