Need To Run Away [revised] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Need To Run Away [revised]



Just when it seems I’m resigned to doing research
seeking technical terms, words become too much:
‘Strategic transverse areas comprise several forms of energy;
governance of energy network substitutions … ’ terms that
glide away beyond understanding of the 13 or so

Remaining brain cells yet to be consumed by pills
modern medicine pumps into me for complacency
while living in allergenic pain; Internet pics show
little brain activity left once modern medication
starts to mess with synapses, in stimulating or

Inhibiting secretion of serotonin and dopamine
while upsetting reabsorption cycles; with all my
brain cells dying 13 is overoptimistic as a guess
probably - thus there is not enough to carry on
translating boring stuff - like this unemotional

Blather on rebellions all over Africa shelving
strategic plans, the people dreaming of electricity
while freedom fighters commit genocide in selfish
bids to obtain power and wealth; right now I need
to run away and leave the rebels to fight among

Themselves, no amount of preaching Madiba at
them has any effect, nothing can stem the tide of
violence with which Africa’s peoples celebrate a
freedom from previous oppression, joining their
erstwhile masters oppressing their own people

With enthusiasm so strange it makes no sense…


[13 February 2014]

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