Voices Of Reason Poem by Gary Fellows

How many voices
How many thoughts
Are suppressed by masses
Ideologies and trends
Popularism rules the day
Breeds more sheep
Flattened grass abound
Where shepherds once lay

Honest are their complaints
But spoken in vain
Silent screams unheard
As reason is shrugged off
The loud minorities
Represented as norm
The tame Bolsheviks
Tossed aside, battered and torn

Free-thought and honesty
Snubbed and repressed
By the established church
Of blind eyes and minds set
How many voices
How many thoughts
Arts for arts ache
Of differing they protest

(September 2008)