Poem - "Travails of history"

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"Travails of History"

 

Liberal left, conservative right,

Two sides of the same coin.

Divisiveness and duality reign

in the realm of human societies.

Schism; Versus; War; Framework.

 

No time left; Momentum of death.

Boulder rolls down mountain,

gathers no moss. Never moss.

 

No time left; Rome fell.

Rome was much greater. It fell.

 

The framework is history.

The framework remains the same.

The world as we know it is doomed.

The world as we don't know it is doomed.

Unless the framework changes,

Repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat

until Earth is devoid of life

and is just another Mars.

Perhaps consciousness needs this lesson.

 

Endless. Endless. The illusion of duality.

Ignorance. Destructive illusions. Death.

Impermanence. No security. Face the fact.

Without inner mutation, outer destruction.

 

Wings torn off a bird, simultaneously;

Left wing, and right wing. No more flight.

The Eagle has landed. It will land no more.

Never a small step for man. Giant leap???

 

Ten thousand years hence;

Time for the bomb shelters again.

And again. And again. And again.

A million years hence. War and strife.

Ten million years. Better bombs.

Perfected suffering. Improved dissonance.

 

No peace until ignorance is gone.

No peace unless the framework changes.

Decline and rise and decline and rise

and decline and rise and decline and rise.

And at the end, nothing has happened.

Progress is a fallacy. Change is within.

 

.... Tim

 

 

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