Monday, March 06, 2023

Brave New World

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS


Brave New World

 

The brave new world came and went

Before our fascination spent

We rallied to the cry: resist!

They took their shot and missed

 

The people here are not so lame

Our wilder spirits cannot be tamed

With medicines or other pills

That sap and shape the force of wills

We are as we have always been

Individualistic women and men

Who worship at the sacred tree

Fight long and hard for liberty

 

We play our separate roles

We’ll never lose our separate souls

Nor sacrifice our sanity

To your dystopian vanity

We know we have our flaws

There are too many laws

That tell us what to think and do

That try to sell us something new

Something bigger brighter wiser

No more greed no more misers

No more worries no more cares

We’ll all have our equal shares

No more loneliness or sorrow

A promise for a new tomorrow

 

We will fight it to the end

On that you can depend

 

(re: Aldous Huxley)

 

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