Mu
I evaluated the weights and measures
of the world and found them unjust
wrongly made and unthankful
lacking the whiteness of a home
black stigmata on the wrong side
of the scale, the means used
by the money changer and the banker
measures of the embezzler
against the sunlit noon of June
and the sanctified bed sheets
of the newlyweds and
I said,
one day, new laws will replace them and
firm directions will be put in place
when Hades shows his face and
their means become useless
measures and weighs, unjust and
wrongly made like the echo
of a coin falling on a shiny pan
I evaluated the modern morals,
shiny, glittering and sexy
bodies and consumer goods
that turns youngsters into numbers
and consciousness into a desolate desert and
I found them dark and horrible and
spreading my glance over the horizon
into the unknown future, I saw
destruction and wars, hunger
and ugliness, and I saw the bank accounts
of the few getting richer
and other people’s earnings
becoming meagre and
I said,
The ineffable had other plans for
people on this earth, while
the ego and greediness of the selected
has changed the planet’s route
towards its destruction
I evaluated the minds and hearts of
the populace and thought of filling them
with love, tolerance, pride, and respect
for the neighbourhood thieves and
for the ambitions of the enemy
to balance the imbalance
I saw everywhere
Manolis Aligizakis 