24/7
Have you heard what has happened in the news today? Chances are that you have because not only are the airwaves replete with twists and turns of events but online/social platforms are driving topics into every crevice — there is nowhere that you can hide! Unless of course, you live under a rock. There, you can certainly avoid the 24/7 stream.
24/7
The grim tide, once reserved
For a nightly fix, in interest
Once accessible through the grapevine
Now spawned throughout the West
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When day breaks, it beckons
All the many who might invest
In the pursuit of more knowledge
Now, it never lets one rest
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The Skyhooks called it a horror movie
What else could it be?
Yes, a 24/7 horror movie
Taunting you to see
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A system of globalised disarray
Powered by the Western quest
Seeking a universal synergy
That feeds from first-world breast
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Israel continues on to conquer
Land and city of the blessed
Not in His honour; Proverb 14:31
To keep Palestinians oppressed
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Across the border, more sad events
As lives are lost in Syrian unrest
While world nations debate borders
To help the twenty million dispossessed
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The Skyhooks called it a horror movie
What else could it be?
Yes, a 24/7 horror movie
Taunting you to see
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ISIS forges a greater strong-hold
To encourage the would-be terrorist
Mainstream grieves with USA and France
Debating the logic of the extremist
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What of the many lives lost elsewhere?
The media seems to forget the rest
Millions in poverty and civil conflicts
Yet, we only see what impacts the West
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Climate change is now a serious issue
A known fact by any environmentalist
While leaders debate its severity
The boat may surely be a-missed
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Across the seas, North Korea flexes power
By executing yet another nuclear test
While Russia and the United States
Vie to see who is the strongest
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And the race for America’s new President
Between two sheep to be undressed
Revealing a pair of hungry wolves
Engaged in a political con-test
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The Skyhooks called it a horror movie
What else could it be?
Yes, a 24/7 horror movie
Taunting you to see
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Meanwhile, Australia engages in debates
Over the meaning of what is racist
Changes to Section 18C of the Act
Supported by many a liberalist
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A Jordanian Christian writer is killed
For featuring material of anti-Islamist
If we turn back many pages in history
The battle was predicted by Nostradamus
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Among all the rubble that humans create
One man stands as a new optimist
Elon Musk plans to send humans to Mars
A second-chance idea that is populist
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In spite of many technological advances
Our planet Earth has surely regressed
Ecologies on which we live rather than with
Causing imbalance that must be addressed
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Developing AI and sponsoring life
The plans of many a scientist
For the expansion in lore of robotics
The desire for an artificial rationalist
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The Skyhooks called it a horror movie
What else could it be?
Yes, a 24/7 horror movie
Taunting you to see
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The grim tide, it surely flows
To show humanity at its worst
A plight to sustain the world
Now a torrid, insatiable thirst
