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 © | Year Posted 2014

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