Philosophical Ranting With Red Wine
Aimless wandering beings
Arms flailing reaching out to touch
feeling no one in reach
isolated pedestrians seeking affection
disconnected lack of eye contact
Seeing no one peripherally...
A sea of souls knowing more each day
forgetting everything else
information trumping wisdom
Compassion overshadowed by Computation
Each byte bites into the fabric
A tattered tapestry left hanging
Rare human-like beings peek through
Wanting tangible exchanges of communication
Exhaling shallow, careful for smog intake
We've made everyday Halloween
Highlighting and Sensationalized...
Terrified of those we don't know
Expanding the gap, alienating...alone
Community was our protection...now stolen
In locked homes peering out, guarded
Neighbors-strangers...shaking with guns
No one safe from the dangers at home!
Intelligence rises...yet we refuse to evolve
Using our fears, insecurities, and prejudice
to hamper the progress of our young
Technology is no surrogate Parent
Using repressive dishonest methods of yesterday
only degenerates the trust of highly informed children
Our hope is in teaching them
where we failed
When we missed
what we forgot
....Transcending the hatreds, and biases
applying the accrued knowledge
to one day
mentally and spiritually
EVOLVE!!
Simultaneously progressing/digressing
Gaining in Ability, losing in Humanity
Our Children will succeed where we could not...
Copyright © Steve Voorhees | Year Posted 2009
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