When the last redneck Republican
realises his true enemy
and stirs with his Democrat neighbour
the great melting pot of
red and blue to an unroyal purple
When an eighty-year-old
Israeli and Palestinian
jointly place the last skull in the
Nakba-Holocaust Ossiary Memorial
and agree to share a country
When single use plastic is abhorred
and the use of oil for
virgin plastic rationed
and whole towns comb their beach
for plastic to recycle
When the last billionaire
gives away his last coin
to the last poor person
weeping as he is
buoyed by sheer relief
When global warming is stabilised
and the last bird species
threatened with extinction
breeds the first nest of
the rest of their species
When the last petrol head
learns to love the glint of
sunlight on windmill blades
and drives off in a small electric car
which is no fashion or status symbol
When the last piece of
the fractured world
is fitted into place – fastened
with a seam of shining gold
and balanced once again
When…
© Andrew Wilson, 2025
Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Mish in Poetics invites us to write about “Building from the Broken” which could be a reference to the Japanese art of Kintsugi, in which a broken piece of porcelain is mended with a glue containing powdered gold resulting in a new and enhanced aesthetic…