The Right To Question

We cannot travel or interact with other nations people, that’s a fact

Nor determine fact from fiction causing not a small amount, of friction

Faceless people have assumed control impervious to the taken toll

Greed and fortune rule their actions dividing opinions, creating factions

An age old mantra reimposed I doubt will ever be fully exposed

And all we know are versions told from sources that are thus controlled

By those who have the most to gain, our sentence an unknowing pain

So many things we’ll never know, corporations now run the show

Now Orwell’s 1984 - has arrived in spades and so much more

Newspapers, radio, Internet, TV ... can we trust all we read or see

The answer, shit I haven’t a clue but the right to question lies with you

How much of the story do we hear, that is what I really fear

Though I am, ‘toeing the line’ - there’s a constant gnawing I can’t define

So I won’t insult those who query or perpetuate some different theory

Above all I bristle at any suggestion that denies our basic right - to question

25th April 2021