OUR CHILDREN ARE MAKING A REVOLUTION By Strider Marcus Jones

in this static show

of status quo

political voices

make their choices

in the game

but most remain

loyal or abstain

and stunt their reputation

for self-gratification

raping the have nots

with subtle riots

of troughed opinion

like glove puppets of elite dominion. 

 

these suits of higher suits

who keep the masses murmurs mute

ignore the real ground

crumbling round

financial towers of glass and steel

whose machinations illegally steal

the oxygen of dreams

from street streams.

this summer cities burned

and some plasma tv's got returned 

by groups

in operatic loots

but i remember them

stealing rice and bottled water

while Number 10

shouted Order! Order!

so they nabbed jazzy trainers to fit in

as a boy dad took nappies for his son to shit in.

it was a grain of gravy from the pile you've got

not even a scoop

of the soup

from the glimmering pot

of silver and gold

simmering on your stove. 

then came the justice of oligarchy's retribution

sending these children to jail

while the bankers and hackers’ own trail

of looting and intrusion

went unpunished or was given bail.

our children are making a revolution

and live in a language

that we can't damage

above our rhetoric and contaminated bones 

on their ipods and mobile phones 

in their own wisdom

and fields of vision

making new tunes

and runes

without the rules

of serfdoms fools

and privileged jewels.

Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and former civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. He is the editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry  https://stridermarcusjonespoetry.wordpress.com/ reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms.

  

His poetry has been published in numerous publications including: The Huffington Post USA; The Stray Branch Literary Magazine; Crack The Spine Literary Magazine;The Lampeter Review and Dissident Voice.