Silenced. Silent

The immense media power prevents the spreading of the multiple voices of alert, the proposals for new approaches, for radical changes, for the transition from force to word, for the historical inflection of the new era that has started.

I wrote in “Terral” in the month of October 1992, what I repeat today:

“Everything is overrun by the present,

it overruns everything.

Its uproar prevents us

hearing the past.

Its hustle obscures

the future

and everything is shattered

and darkened.

Each day we must see

those eyes as yet

unborn

watching us.

We must say the unsayable,

words no-one wants to hear

if we want to live

with heads held high

able to look our children.

Only an outstretched hand

Could  shine the light

to orient a new course....”

Twenty five years ago! It is now urgent still to say what does not want to be heard. And outstretch caring hands, never again raised.

Let's not be silenced. We can and must express ourselves. Great in-person and digital outcries could, at last, put the reins of the common destiny into the hands of people.