Land of Hope and Fury

Cherry

By Ewan

Tue, 11 Nov 2025
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Reason is banished, 
talking, discussion, intercourse
- save one particular kind – unused.

We suffer a long division,
the exponent of our bile is ∞,
the intersection of our sets is null.

We SHOUT at each other
like two deaf people fighting
over an old Beatles record ...

One called All You Need Is Love,
though no-one believes that now
in this land of hope and fury.

We are all furious 
at our own dashed hopes,
we feel betrayed by politicians.

We forget that winning 
means others must lose,
or perhaps we no longer care.

Ours are not true hopes,
more ill-wishes for others,
yet we expect only good in return. 

We saw an open box
and closed the lid,
trapping the last good thing inside. 

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Comments

Submitted by Makis on

Ours are not true hopes, more ill-wishes for others. Well said sir!

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Terminology looks fine, nice mathematics language, "We suffer a long division, the exponent of our bile is ∞, the intersection of our sets is null". Exhaustion, infinity, isolation.

The third stanza too, deaf people shouting at each other, I can imagine! But "We forget that winning means others must lose", is fortunately, not necessarily true.

 As a whole, a good story! Tom