618 : The Murmuring

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #128) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

ghosts, exact, patches, gathered, worship, spill

unbidden, hillside, where, swarm, edges, sharp

The Murmuring

A tide of human misery

Has gathered to the north of us,

Mountains of humanity

Ready to spill over

And flood us,

Ready to swarm down,

And destroy us.

Like so many unbidden

And unpleasant vermin,

Illegal boat people,

But not real people.

Well, that’s the message,

But not the exact truth,

It is repeated over and over:

Hard, sharp and callously cold.

A demonization of desperate people

That edges on the paranoid,

And centres on the deceitful.

On vast patches of the Indian Ocean

People are dying.

Dying for no other reason than

They wanted something better

And political expedience demands

That they do not get it.

You, our glorious leader,

So proud of your saviour

As you worship each weekend

And dream of your paradise to come;

Where you walk on the hillsides covered

With flowers, young kittens and trilling birds,

Skipping through meadows with flaxen-haired children,

Pointing with joy at the clouds of butterfies…

Do you hear the murmur of the ghosts?

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2013

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