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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Huh?

What was
What is
What will be
We are losing
History
Faster
Than we
Can make it
And I am
Not so sure
we can bake it
Having lost
The recipe

Losing history faster than we make it on first utterance was nothing more than a odd quirky phrase thrown out in idle conversation with fellow students. I found myself silent for the rest of the meeting, hearing it over and over in my head. After I returned home I was greeted by the Tony Snow Show and his current spinnification of the days of our lives here in the states. What is a poor boy to do? The more I study the more worried I become. I would love to write a beautiful fiction or a compelling line or two in an otherwise bland peice of prose or poetry, but I instead I find only phrases that seem to point out errors in our societal programming.

Here is a prayer I find my otherwise atheist soul emoting:
If you are listening God,
Show a sign,
To give me hope
That we will
See the light of reason
And act compassionatly
With good intention
Towards all life on Earth.

3 comments:

mistipurple said...

i went to mass two days ago
after a long while

Enemy of the Republic said...

Good prayer. Maybe God will answer it by suddenly getting people to read history so that they don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Here's hoping.

anonant said...

Misti - I have never been to a catholic service, raised as a baptist and promptly found drugs.

Enemy - Maybe we will begin to connect the dots of cause and effect and ignorance and decisions.

Thanks for the post, I have been lax at my postings.
peace