2016

Graceful streetlights lightfully graze in isolated clusters on the asphalt savannah

A giant, multi-legged concrete creature, flickering in muted blue, arches silently overhead

A plethora of coloured, head-lamped species noisily run their regular tracks

Focused and intent, accelerating and decelerating in a constant flux

Square mountains, towering perpendicular to earth, bear a variety of windows to lives

Challenging the old, established and wooden structures that hold the natural high ground,

Advancing their population driven cause, crunching through isolated pockets of resistance

With fantastical offers, inducements and incentives to be near the water

Skeletal brontosaurial structures advance the evolution with their mechanical advantage

Silent in the darkness, patient in the preparations for their limited daylight activities

Waiting to explode into and disrupt a limited period of frenzied activity

Spewing forth their iron and concrete into controlled monolithic structures

Not a flicker of thought nor concern with the beautiful past or the possible future

Content to feed the multitude and ignorant parasites of advancement

Those providers of electrical conduits, air conditioning, paint, tiles, carpet, laundry

And all the other unnatural necessities of 21st Century life

An ancient fear of the darkness and the beasts still blindly drive us to progress

Let’s not kid ourselves about the lack of content, substance and beauty in 2016

Limited Renaissance thinking or outcomes here, in our art, our sociology or politics

Self-serving, insular, greedy and critical identities are rewarded in this time and space

Sadness, poverty and fear grow exponentially in a global atmosphere of competition

Religious and historic intolerance even hatred, xenophobia and homophobia thrive

And all the while the economies of the world teeter and totter, fragile as glass

One small step away from those graceful streetlights being frozen as relics in a darkness.