I have always considered the tradition of making a "New Year's Resolution" as rather pointless, as I usually try to mould my life from day to day with the same fundamental principles of humanity that I personally hold dear.
However, this year I have decided to make an exception and make a "New Year's Resolution" and it is that I will take council with the poets, the dreamers and the utopians, the future looks so much brighter that way.
Here's wishing you all a future built by the poets, the dreamers and the utopians.
WALK WITH THE POETS.
My head has had enough of you,
you doomsday sooth-sayers, and
rationalists, that trap us in the world
that is.
Go weave your tales of “can't be
done”
to the dead, and those of no
imagination.
I want to walk with the utopian,
the dreamer and the poet,
laugh with the child and sing with the
wind.
Run with the deer, not with “the
market trend”
Enough of, “this is the way it has to
be”,
a world of poverty, wars and
inequality.
Now, I'll create the world I want to
see,
A world of sharing, peace and liberty.
I want the children to plan tomorrow,
the adult help them get there,
trees and flowers our treasured
possessions,
with birds and animals their keepers.
Who wants a world that chains us to
mortgages,
binds us to a labouring day, just to
eat bread?
Who wants to spend their life, feeding
fat-cats
while their own children go hungry?
No, this is not the world that has to
be,
in our foolishness and misplaced trust,
this is a world that has slithered over
us,
poisoning our mind, putrefying our
spirit.
Let's call on the poet, let's welcome
the dreamer,
let's take council with the utopian,
They'll
help us create a better world for all.
