What Have We Planned For 2009?

Have we planned enough for the year ahead?The terrorizing wars, conflicts, military bloodshedZionist lobbies, hawkish Hindus, Islamic fanaticsHave we planned enough to defeat Christian clerics?
Have we planned at all for the impending poverty?Or a few billionaires controlling all earthly propertyForty million refugees, can't call a region their ownHave we planned at all for the homeless population?
Have we planned well to tackle global illiteracy?For more than a billion, education still a fantasyEighty percent of world survives for ten dollars a dayHave we planned well to end the class society next May?
Have we planned any to read beyond headlines?Of Obama's hopes as wars on Afghans, PakistanisSaving global capitalism as the onslaughts on poorestHave we planned any to abuse our illusions at best?
Have we planned somehow to stop funding hate?To end Israreli occupations before its way too lateAmerican troops, Blackwater mercenaries, Halliburton OilsHave we planned somehow to block capitalistic turmoils?
Have we planned steps to care for the unattended sick?Four billion sans drinking water, yet more uninsured weakPrivate healthcare preferring profit over public concernsHave we planned steps to replace the pharma corporations?
Have we planned yet to support unions and labor forces?The peaceniks, communists, lovers and freedom sourcesIn solidarity with Zapatistas, the Naxalites, and our landlessHave we planned yet to ally with these progressive classes?
Have we planned ever in view of our future generations?How to organize and educate the current media consumersBefore the majority among us is deceived again this new yearHave we planned ever to herald a new world, freed from fear?
Have we planned ways to restore lasting peace on Mother Earth?Not to imagine battles, occupations, business interests' wrathUniting indigenous, workers, spreading words against warsHave we planned ways to consolidate workers, not corporate class?
- Saswat PattanayakPeoples' Poet, 2008