Tomorrow Becomes Today
Tomorrow comes today when laptop leads time astray
as we forget ourselves as news junkies or by studying celebrity,
as if we miss anything we will take the rap as though any
information is all; there are no higher forms like knowledge,
let alone wisdom distilled by thought, experience and time,
because to rise up this hierarchy is such a bloody bore.
Today is tomorrow as human nature does not change,
if at all; history is always in flux and luck bad and good
try to make or break us, yet progress does exist seeing
longevity that would make even our recent ancestors
laugh with incredulity; this long lingering kiss or exhausted
breath, hopefully bringing individuality and sociability if not in
mutual harmony then in positive creative, as education enhances
us and wealth enables us to us our spiritual gifts (however defined)
guiding us so that we in the West for all our faults and failings are both
a beckoning beacon and a warning lighthouse to a world that Bill Gates
so audaciously or arrogantly claims, will in twenty or so years time expunge
all poverty even if the world, or we try in dreadful symmetry, trip all beings up?
Copyright © Peter Dorr | Year Posted 2014
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