#poetry · Satire · Systems · Reflection
Point One — Context
The United Nations was established in 1945 to prevent future wars, protect peace, and represent humanity beyond borders. Nearly eighty years later, many still question whether it has fulfilled its promise — or simply become a ceremonial echo of ideals it once carried with urgency. This poem reflects that tension, using sarcasm to confront the gap between vision and reality.
Poem
Un-do-U-UN
Long established —
1945,
a year stitched with hope,
the ink still warm
from war’s last scream.
A promise.
A blueprint.
A global sigh of “never again.”
And yet —
here we are.
Long awaited results,
still pending.
Zero delivered.
Only well-phrased
insults
decorated as resolutions.
“Money talks,”
you declared —
and indeed it does.
Louder than integrity,
louder than suffering,
louder than every flag
you say unites us.
Uninterested.
Uninvested.
Yet thoroughly infested
with vested interests
smiling behind
diplomatic immunity.
Time, you said,
is needed.
And since Bretton Woods,
you’ve been charting
the beginning —
still wandering
in the woods
like cartographers
who fear a real map.
Your style is stale —
performative peace,
neutrality rehearsed
to perfection.
Leaders arranged
like statues,
photographed more than heard,
breathing the recycled air
of ritualized diplomacy.
A depressing, sacred room —
smelling faintly
of old leather,
dead conviction,
and mushrooms
no sane poet would eat.
So tell us,
United Nations —
united by what?
By applause for inaction?
By signatures without teeth?
By the silence between
your moral paragraphs?
Perhaps one day
you’ll awaken —
not with a new slogan,
nor a redesigned emblem —
but with courage.
Until then,
the world waits.
Patient.
Exhausted.
Unconvinced.
And very much
un-done.
Point Two — Reflection
Satire is not dismissal — it is accountability in poetic form. This piece is a reminder that institutions meant to safeguard humanity should evolve with honesty and courage, not ceremony. Hope deserves more than architecture and slogans — it deserves integrity.
*a human AI creative collaboration
