things will look brighter in the morning
I could care less about fireworks
or trips to poland
or face to face meetings between
elected dictators
the neighbors look especially cautious
having invitation-only block parties
and seemingly grinning at those they hate
I wish I could forget about the wars
but with all this weather going on
it’s just a perfect reminder how
thousands are dying before their time
tipping points may or may not come to fruition
but in the meantime dramatic world-wide
crashes are certain to spawn modern day prophets
declaring the next golden age is at hand
july two thousand seventeen
copyright j matthew waters
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jdubqca 
Ooh, I like the Midas touch at the end.
oh thank you
I am grateful for your poetry.
Thank you very much, Lara, this means so much to me.
Promises of gilded future can be a road towards destruction.
without question – at some point true visionary thinking and action needs to replace war and self-destruction