Friday, December 6, 2019

apocalypse ahead

They say depressive folk see the world
more realistically.
But it’s not realism that brings us down.
It just all feels so beyond our ability
to change.
Yet change will be, as change is the
one true constant.
No we cannot recreate what is real
to fit our plans.
Yes, we can plan and act in thoughtful
ways that help sway the direction
of change.
But the weight of our understood world
can get so immense.
We feel frustration, energized into rage.
Without clear place to make that anger
win our cause, it builds, and accretes
with memories of shame, turns itself
to blame against our own mistakes,
unfortunate choices, to take the only
control we feel allowed.
 
 
 
We have expectation, assumptions
of what total strangers believe, based
on our experience of our own motives
and shame.
 
 
 
Traditional end days have been based
on religious prophecy.
Today’s are based in science.
See our behaviors through the lens of
apocalyptic desperation.
What better response do you recommend?
 
 
 

12/1-6/19

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