Poems & sirventes: Recent Episodes
Marta Barandiy
The rules you accept as outstanding
To help you not die "from the virus",
The others are not understanding:
The humans are not just the bodies.
The ministers led by virologists
Are not properly challenged.
If they involved the psychologists,
Decisions would be better balanced.
Executive power must stay within limits,
Must not trade the fears with the freedoms.
Destruction of rights, basic for humans,
Your children will just not forgive us.
All the crises have emerged
From an “unfair and unjust” world
From the freedom to elect
Those whose task is to detect
The abusers of the power,
Their temptation to forever
Deprive people of control –
Increase governmental role.
The last election was a race
To put people in the place
Who can suddenly decide
To put liberties aside.
One person financing international organization
That has monopoly on all types of information
Concerning the sphere that suddenly got domination
Over the freedom and life of every sovereign nation?
All the elites supporting this notion.
No one resists this ideas' promotion.
What is it that I am not seeing?
Missing the point or not willing kneeing?
Powerful’s vanity slams powerless’ sanity.
Those, never critical, are hypocritical:
Commercial publicity – is always political.
Big corporations’ historical revelations
Show that spending for lobbying -
Responsible for millions’ sobbing.
Big firms sponsor political candidates -
So, future “presidents” work for their benefits.