INTRODUCTION

On Day #1, I already gave a pithy intro to this 7-day series of war-poems which will culminate on November 11th. You can still consult that intro here: https://diakrisis-project.com/2025/11/05/day-1-of-the-7-day-war-poem-countdown-to-november-11th-double-sonnet-another-side-of-war/ . I also gave a double sonnet entitled “Another Side of War” which examined the bellicose nature of the belligerent, divisive Left-Right paradigm in politics. Today, on Day #2, I present another double-sonnet, entitled “Make Yourself a No-One”. It opens up how you can respond when your government wages war against its own population by introducing a digital “Bitte Ihre Unterlagen!” (“Papers, please!”) society.

When states wage war against those human souls
whose individuality stands true,
and who they try to force in pigeonholes,
the time’s come to withdraw from open view.

When governments make war instead of peace
on their OWN populations to control
excessively — their livelihoods to fleece —
The time has come to find one’s own bolthole.

I’m law-abiding when laws are in sync
with God’s law and the bounds of common-sense.
But I will not comply with doublethink
nor with some digital ID pretence.

To make oneself a ‘no-one’ soon will be
the lot of those who wish to remain ‘free’.

Being ‘no-one’ limits one’s own ego,
for ‘no-one’ has no fleshness in the game
of politicians’ psyops rodeo
who seek to banish no-ones (to their shame).

No one knows more in this world than ‘no-one’
’bout how to stay low-profile in this space.
Till night falls I’ll keep a bit of ‘someone’,
with trifling entry on their database.

In Orwell’s tale, there was no ‘digital’;
that’s why real life will be much worse than that.
Trying to be a ‘no-one’ then was woeful;
but soon he’ll be a cyber-acrobat.

We all are no-ones really, truth be told;
but in God’s databank I’ll be enrolled!

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[Tomorrow, Day #3, November 7th, there will be a poem about the terrible toll that warring takes on its combatants. The title will be: “When Wars Become a Warcrime”].

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© Copyright, Alan Morrison, 2025
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