Planet Power

Ode to a planet

We test your trust
Drag you down
Use you up
Create havoc with your weather
Love you, need you, abuse you and
Our planet is dying...
"Whatever."

Greatness taken for granted.
Your planetary plight, ignored.
Perniciously we plunder
Mindlessly. We manoeuvre and mess
With the world for our wares.
Mammonism rules while
Our planet is dying...
"Who cares?"

Planet to the world

Listen to my message infant man;
This world would answer back.
I scream my plight! Now hear my words:
No more soundbites, no spin, no promises.
Your selfish rhetoric hasn’t worked.

Now!
I call for action.
Now!
I’m fighting back.

Inside my furnace is raging.
Tears of sadness become tears of rage.
Millions of years I lived before you...
You who rip off my clothes,
Blow holes in my skin!
You who make my blood boil.
Beware infant man...
Your cradle is rocking.

Sue Fewster 2009

Insanity

Dreaming, my escape
From reality.
Dreams -
Recollection, re collection.
Elusive Mind,
Mine ceases to dream.
No escape,
Dungeons
Deep
Down
Mine, Mind, Mined
Buried,
Breaking, breaking,
Broken.
Dreadful dream
No awakening.

Sue Tonge, 1976, going mad….

Wall of seclusion

You melted the ice surrounding my heart,
Wrenched out my emotions, tore them apart.
My island, my rock of defence, you invaded.
Feelings once hidden, now are paraded
When you laugh at my tears.

My life, always ruled by my head,
Now my heart of lead dominates instead
That fear of hurt, emotional pain -
That dread it fills my heart again.
A dream of love came alive.
In reality it died.

Your hands created ecstasy, a moment in time.
A natural pleasure – the senses - sublime.
I crave your touch, desire your heart;
We pull apart.
I'm afraid again, must pretend an illusion,
And build that hard, dark wall of seclusion.


Sue Tonge, June 1986 – hurting again...