National Poetry Writing Month Poem No8. Looking for Inspiration

Looking for Inspiration

I am running short of inspiration
as I look at a nation
full of vitriol
and antagonism.
Where the people in
high places
decorate themselves
with honours
and royalties
celebrities
build up
their images
like deities
and those
who conform
and follow
suit
end up
as parodies
of themselves.
While masquerading
as the gods
and goddesses
of today
the media
simply
embrace
the mainstream
guides thoughts,
actions and
beliefs
while corporate
enterprises
have us hooked
on cooking the
books
While the bankers hoard
we grin and obey
the tune of today
While the new order
grasps their
opportunities
carpe diem
seize the day
while the
world is left
on a precipice
that mankind made.