How Can I Hear the Voice of The Voiceless?

 

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How Can I Hear the Voice of The Voiceless?

How can I hear the voice of The voiceless,

How can I know the crux of their pain.

How can I share their desperate confusion 

When powerful self-interests

Shout them down, ‘Don’t complain’,

‘Your cause is trivial, our wealth holds the power

To solve the world’s problems -

Though, sorry, not yours’.

‘Progress’ then wipes away all they hold special,

And swells corporate coffers from their scars and sores.

Foxley Wood, Late April.

Foxley Wood: April 2020

We found beauty, joy, tranquillity

in a wood of azure blue;

bells whose antecedents lived

quiet aeons prior to me or you.  

 

The peace was sudden shattered

by a vile and violent roar

of military jets blasting the sky.

We asked 'Whatever for?'

 

The din hurt ears, but far, far worse,

our souls were crushed with fear

as fuel was guzzled, spent, then fouled

earth’s fragile atmosphere.

 

© Trevor Thorn, May 2021.