The Disordered Order

Mankind is an expert in the field of the disordered order Through the years of turmoil and peace Mankind has maintained his appetite For this reckless philosophy Keep the disorder inside the order And chaos will not be seen We saw this philosophy applied through the Roman Dutch law Keep the police well fed and the society will behave From the dusty corners of the planet To the mangled dark alleys of the industrialised world Poverty was kept hidden Inside the delicate eggshells of fragile democracies The disquiet was properly hidden inside the peaceful facial expressions The emergency of pandemics is not an anomaly Inside the disordered order of the present world We have mastered the art of hiding behind our finger We ignored the fact that the ripples of chaos are breeding more chaos We were satisfied with our new found atmosphere of peace and prosperity We were breeding monsters, from terrorism to pandemics We have more tsunamis coming our way Unless we accept that this unspoken philosophical state of affairs is broken We will continue to nurse our wounds We will continue to wallow in sorrow and pain We will host the winds of uncertainty forever We will not find the fibre of peace inside the vastness of our consciousness Poverty is mankind's number one enemy We have to dig it out of its burrows in our homes We have to eradicate it from the fragile bodies of our children We have to plant a sense of all for one, one for all Selfishness is Mankind's downfall ©Kenneth Maswabi