Mobile Mayhem

I bought myself a new modern mobile

With Internet and all.

OMG

Such a leap into the stars

After my “Lappy” Laptop

And old Nokia.

Where do I begin?

Either here or on the phone?

At sixty five I need some kid

To show me.

All this feather-light touching and sweeping,

“Apps” and “Data” and battery preservation.

A bewildering jungle of meaningless symbols

That lead you into chaos.

It can be great:

Taking and sharing lovely vistas

For all your Facebook Friends.

Speaking to Google and getting a nice sounding

Lady reply.

Very handy indeed

Until it all goes wrong

And World War Three breaks out

Or else you are Stuck

As surely

As a Prisoner.

But hey, I can be a Fast Learn

Getting there

As at long last I enter

The Twenty First Century.

Paul Butters

I am King

I am king of the world, universe and everywhere,

But I have only a hint of power.

So all I can give you is attitude.

Just pointing out injustice

Where I see it.

Classes and castes and religious divides

I see as evils

To be opposed

With all my might.

For sure I’ve little might

Of course,

But I still have the right

To say that it’s all wrong.

Classless society is what we want:

Well anyone who’s worth his, or her salt wants this.

Religious discrimination is another thing

We need to remove

From our way of life.

There are many more evils in our world,

So we must do

All we can

To obliterate them

At every opportunity.

I can’t put this any other way,

Poetic or not,

We have to stand

And fight

Against all that we see

As bad.

For the Common Good.

Paul Butters

(Inspired by a TV programme from Joanna Lumley on India, in which she described "The Caste System".).

Nothingness

Nothingness:

Nothing,

Non-Existence,

Infinite, Eternal black space stretching out

Beyond imagination.

Yet even Nothing is a Something

That Exists.

Even Nothing could create

The Big Bang.

Everywhere we look

Subatomic particles wink and blink

Into Being

Then vanish

To reappear.

We are never stable

Ever changing

In tune

With mathematical equations.

The wonder of it all.

Force, energy, matter

Incredible piles of rock

And clouds of gas.

Supersuns and bottomless black holes.

All indifferent to the fact of their own existence

Until Life appears

Perhaps inevitably

With minds to witness

These incredible happenings

That happen

Until the end of time

If time can end.

Paul Butters