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While our eyes are on: While our eyes are on Ukraine, Somalia's humanitarian crisis and its tidal wave of refugees should not be forgotten. The last three lines of your poem show a great amount of awareness and compassion. Well said! 

You have a gift for pinning: You have a gift for pinning down aspects of the human adventure with metaphors that erupt and stun. Feeling this! Amazing. 

TP As A Metaphor: . Dig deep or discover by chance, origins with no author. Why Somalia? Warbucks. ~A~ 

You Are Interesting: Your story poem has dialogue. Cool. You're onto a fine style. Lady A  

The stranglehold of the elite: Prince Andrew – the 62 year old son of the Queen, is a prime example.   He’s a natural-born cunt, that constantly twittles around with little kids and uses them as sex toys.   But he never sees a moment of jail time. He just pays twelve-million pound (16 million US Dollars) settlements out of court, and all is forgiven.   But he doesn’t even pay it out of his own pocket.   It’s paid by the UK tax payers.   Because the UK law is setup in such a way, that it pays all legal settlements for royalty.   And this goes on across the entirety of Europe…   https://isgp-studies.com/belgian-x-dossiers-of-the-marc-dutroux-affair-the-accused        

You speak frustrations against the Wall of Generations: If we can ever change the world, it likely will take a collapse and starting over. Otherwise, any hope may take hundreds, if not thousands of years of incremental gains - first, somehow, stopping "the downfall" you speak of.   There's a theory of socio-genetics - social behaviors that are passed down through children/families/communities - in which civilizations have weeded out the most revolutionary, selfless people over the countless centuries, while the most selfish, controlling persons tended to hoard materials and survive (quite often as the rulers who eliminated the selfless revolutionaries). We can think of some great examples of the former - the altruists, if you will - in modern times. Martin Luther King Jr. didn't make it past 40. Medgar Evers was assassinated at 37. Perhaps Malcom X wasn't an altruist, but he still grew into a fairly selfless revolutionary and he was dead at 39.   Meanwhile, George Herbert Walker Bush, who was assistant director of the CIA during much of those years, then went on to head the CIA before becoming US President, lived to 94. At the head end of the table in the ruling class, Warren Buffet is 91 and so is George Soros. Overseas, meanwhile, the Queen of England - a fantastic example of a wealthy leech - is nearly a 100.   I could go on and on, but the point is, we only get the family rearing and cultural influence of people like King for half as long, or less, as we get from scumbags like Bush, Buffet, Soros and Queens/Kings. Compounded over 1000's of years, it's theoretically deteriorated our societies, with more and more of the remaining population being, essentially, bred to be selfish.  

Farenheit 451 : ..also hit on this quite well.   Society, itself, ultimately willingly participates in it's own censorship and erasure of the past. We are seeing this, as well.