A Flash in the Pan
We insanely think that everything will go on for ever as it is despite the lessons of history that tell us nothing ever does.
Our lives continue slowly down their path until a sudden event, a decision, a disease, a death, and they change forever.
Likewise it is with the history of the world.
Despite all the fossil record tells us we think we are here forever. We are not. We will one day be a seam of fossils in the rock strata. The thickness of the debris we leave behind will be determined by our own actions. That is the difference between us and all that has gone before.
We have the ability, through our innate intelligence, to determine our own fate.
The saddest thing is that despite that we seem intent on engineering our own demise. We steadfastly remain inept at addressing the problems that confront us. Instead of coming together as a species we remain apart as countries, companies and individuals vying, with voracity, for wealth and power in the face of the inevitable.
The Anthropocene Apocalypse looms and we seem incapable of breaking out of the selfish stupidity we are locked into.
The mantra is – ‘Expansion, growth and more!’ It should be ‘Together, intelligence and sanity!’
If we don’t change we will be a flash in the pan.
A Flash in the Pan
A flash in geology –
We came.
Held down by gravity.
We saw.
A species still in embryology.
We conquered.
With insane brevity.
Arrogant with no apology.
We knew.
Beset by depravity.
We grew.
Creating theology.
We thought
With undue voracity.
A chimp with ideas.
We flew.
Flawed with cruelty.
Right through.
Choosing a way of tears –
By choice.
Instead of what could be.
A narrow strip of rubble
We left
Hiding a sea of trouble
Created
By our unruly bubble
Bereft
On the shore of possibility.
Busy designing our own exit
With glee.
Blind with selfish greed
We ignored
The means to fix it.
The word
Was lost in the deed.
Opher 10.9.2015