Thank you for the honor and your hard work.
‘Resitance is Futile’*1
We’re being bombarded, daily,
By subliminal messages, hourly,
Whispers of drugs, violence, alcoholics’ enduced hazes, minutely,
Incorporated in ALL media, compulsively.
Resistance is Futile …
Words, sounds, images coalesce
Into an indoctrinated presence
That’s insidious in its convergence
Into your mind, creating a blinding trace
For behaviors that are incongruent
With ‘our’ Ideals of humanity, that are esculent
By mediocrity of addiction becoming permanent,
As our dependence skyrockets into exponent …
‘Resitance is Futile’ …
As our struggles persist, our
Vision, imagination, purveyor
Of our strength of cohesion, flutter
Into a bud that flourishes in power.
As ‘Resistance is Futile’,
Our obstacles remain tangible,
Yet, clearly, unattainable.
The need to strive to be corrigible
Is embedded in our DNA, for hope is always tenable.
Thus:
‘Resitance is (Not) Futile.’
*1. Star Treck, the Borgh, a a cyborg entity trying to Conquer worlds, says this to Captain Pickard when they wish to invade earth.
©️ Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
Veiled Butterfly
Her veil of flowers and butterflies
Flit around her head as her eyes
Wander into the night skies.
Her beauty shines through
Her astounding eyes of blue,
Framed by lashes of a brownish hue.
Her rosy lips stutter with each
Winged flap, trying vainly to catch
The flight of the butterfly and latch
Onto its fringes and take flight
With her fantasms in direct conflict
With reality’s nightmarish bite.
Her lashes flutter as her revelry
Into a utopian wonder clashes sensibly
With a reality where her veil is horribly
Marred by Stereotypes that bind
Perceptions of beauty of the mind
To terrorist activities that make you grind
Your frustrations for a lack of understanding
And communication that’s building
Roadblocks that inhibit freedom of living.
©️Malak kalmoni chehab ©️
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectly-Flawed-poetry-Malak-Kalmoni/dp/1525582518
Poetry for Change 