We make rivers and dawns

We make rivers and dawns

Failing to ask the right questions,

Or answering the wrong ones.

Living every day past its due date

Comrades lost, friends divided

For a brand image

Like companies

competing for market share.

Hammering on walls built

For this capitalist cell

With tools made

In 1969.

On borders begun

In 1521.

The devil laughs.

And we smile despite ourselves.

Hope plays these mindless games.

How many days have we won

How many victories too small

For philosophers and their schemas

Long dead and gone.

How many hours have we won

Despite ourselves

Small victories like dew drops

Fall like rain drops

Like tear drops

Pink, then red, a solid grey

On parched sky,  never too dry.

Grey drops form

Rivers and dawns.