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| Mark Heathcote |
It is sombre to fall into despair. I do declare.
As I look upon her ghostly face in silhouette
She is an apparition, the likeness of Mary upset.
Her hands were clenched to her chest in prayer.
As a cavalcade of tumbleweed rolls into town
Tarot cards are dealt between middlemen.
Oilmen and businessmen alike once again
Our mother is frowning in her nightgown.
A sense—Judgement Day is coming, a foreboding
Death, he's looking at me and you in preparation.
As global warming takes place and mass migration
Displaces, Death on his black charger encroaching.
He helps build ever higher and higher walls.
Death, he is gleefully smiling as bombs are falling
From the skies. And newborn infants are bawling.
Kids are inhaling aerosols and are raised by jackals.
Cry out their dystopian tears of injustice.
Till they dry up and in turn, turn to blood.
Whatever happened to peace and harmony? They shrug.
Whatever happened to lessons learnt by the pragmatist?
Death, he is laughing loudly.
Isn't this what you voted for?
Isn't this what all your cost-cutting was for?
Your irons and your chains are being made at the foundry.
Isn't this what all your early gains have wrought?
What are you demonstrating for?
Haven't you got what you wanted and more?
No need to cry now or look too distraught.
Burn all those fossil fuels and defenceless bodies.
And level this land to desert sands.
Because we’ve got big expansion plans.
Because we've got plans for palaces with royalties.
We've got plans for grand hotels and a new Riviera.
With roulette wheels and blackjack tables.
Where you can say amen and read your counterfeit Bible
In the shadows singing to the alpha and omega
Where you can lose what's left of your money and soul.
Because if you want to have fun,
You’ve got to cook in the sun till you're overdone.
You've got to get dirty and then, my dear, die alone.
Bio: Mark Andrew Heathcote is an adult learning difficulties support worker. His poems have been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies online and in print. He is from Manchester and resides in the UK. Mark is the author of “In Perpetuity” and “Back on Earth,” two books of poems published by Creative Talents Unleashed.
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