Poem



Pac-man eats too fast,
The metaphor of choice,
Please do not confuse,
There is no active voice.
A plea to act without intention,
And live our lives without direction.

We have no main conception,
Of who-what, where or when;
Too many without a monkey man,
While stuck in McDonald’s Den.
And tethered to that little box,
Fearing our strings been cut.

But the truancy of a mighty bunch
Can hardly be ignored;
Sneaking out for freedom’s peace,
Ossified and bored;
And leaving a well of fear and hate
To fester, spread and recreate.

But when that voice that we all hear
Says that final verse,
It’ll be the time to all stand up—
Begin the great reverse.
To start the slide of hopeless young;
Let’s change things and start the fun.


This poem means a lot to me and to a lot of other people (hopefully). I imagine that it is very dark and not very uplifting, but I think that it is encouraging at least. It talks about another big change in society, such as the hippies of the 60’s and 70’s. The, ‘great reverse’ is the reverse in society, away from monopolies and mega-corporations and to a more balanced and equal society. The problems of America, and of Earth, have all built up steadily for fifty years, and there needs to be another period where people realize this and become active to change things. That’s what this poem is meant to be suggesting, that this big movement needs to start sometime. I have no idea when anything like this might happen, or for whom and about what, but I’m guessing that within the next twenty years, there will be another large social movement such as the ones we’ve had previous.