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.
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i went to mass two days ago
after a long while
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.
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
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