The Listeners 2000 A.D. Poem by Angela Michel

Are you aware?

In the countryside of England
stands a building, unpretentious,
home of a global surveillance plan.

An elite group of governmental agents
united to construct
an electronic listening station.
It, by use of satellite surveillance
eavesdrops on the email conversation
of any target, man or nation.

'For the good of all'

The computer, man's new best friend
programmed to hear where evil grows
and warn the master... by whose hand.

Innocence or Evil
By whose rules do they judge?
Shouldn't we question,
what kind of motivation
lets them trade our privacy
for so called security.
Too much power in the hands of one man..
becomes a tyranny!

Beware