The World Has Changed

nobody listens - why should they they know we ed up. The old are rarely wise the way an old bull elephant is wise, we merely survived ourselves. The people have changed once they were trusting and were betrayed now they betray themselves. The young overhear the lies of the old, they secretly know, they understand they have to construct bigger, better lies. Once the world was a plum, full and sweet, or it seemed so. There was danger everywhere, yet we understood that danger had a purpose. Now the world is a bug inside the flesh of a blood red plum and the plum is tasteless. We could tell the young exactly when the world changed, fortunately memories fade, we grow sleepy. Tongues nowadays, like that serpent of old, believe the lies that they spread. Lips nowadays, have learned the black and white arts, they know how to indoctrinate, manipulate, relate. They make the lies true, make it right for the wrong in us. The days forget themselves. We have to listen while the younger lies change their skins time and time again.