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We Have Lived

It seems it was but a moment ago
   that we were born and grew into the world
and yet ... there is a history here
   revealing all we have heard and seen,
   learned and sadly, unlearned.
It is a history for a moment in time
   lapsed in our memories, forgotten to sleep in our dreams
   swayed and dismantled by our progression
   daunted by power, greed and the inhumanity that rises within us.
We have lived
   remembering the aftermath of a Great World War
   the rise and fall of tyrants and dictators
   alluring us with false promises and lies.
We have lived 
   to see the heroes and heroines who spoke then silenced
   of humanity filled with hopes and dreams and promises
   for change, to be better than who we were.
We have lived
   to hear the voices crying in the wilderness
   only to close them out, shut them down
   silence their realities in lieu of our own want and need.
We have lived
   to taste the power of money and its greed
   to own and hold tight to things, possessions
   rather than dreams, the people around us.
We have lived
   to touch the glitter of golden and silver-tongued liars
   that taunt and tease us into thinking only of ourselves
   living above, beyond, better than the rest of the world.
We have lived
   to know and inhale the smell of more, its sweet aromas
   when more is too little, too much, too near, too far
   from the innocence in which we were born.
Is this then the future, the modern, enlightened mankind?
   Still succumbing to the slavery of sex, drugs and lies 
   forget the rock and roll, the music is 
   more haunting, blinding, deafening, dulling who we were.
We have lived
   but what does it mean
   to truly live, to be alive
   and lived well?

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