Consider the state of things in the world in 2025. Frankly, even though we are supposed to be a forward-thinking and more sensitive world, the facts contradict that state. I could fill a couple of pages with facts and opinions on this but suffice it to say we have wars, we have starving people in rich countries, and we have global greed in obscene proportions.
The Lollipop
Have we come to the end of our lollipop?
Have we extracted every last vestige of flavour?
Has the human race reached the top?
Is there nothing left to savour?
We’ve come a long way from hunter-gathering,
it’s taken many millennia to get here,
there are clues of the past, remaining,
will AI be controller of this sphere?
Will they allow us to continue,
in a pointless war of
acquisitions,
allowing mountains of waste to accrue,
and adding more toxic emissions.
Or will they farm us like aphids,
culling those of little value,
not accepting financial bids,
or evidence from those who can argue.
Or perhaps there’s a genetic ceiling,
signalled by isolationist greed,
that is already influence applying,
and poisoning human seed.
When you come to the end of your lolly,
right down to the final lick,
to strive on may well be folly,
when all you have left is the stick.
© David L Atkinson March 2025
God Bless
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