Changes,
Fits and starts,
A sniper and a Duke,
Planes and towers,
Invasions,
Bodies in the streets.
The world changes
In sudden jerks.
It jumps.
Things are rarely the same for long.
Like a record
Jumping between tracks.
Once it has jumped
It can never go back.
Nothing will ever be the same.
Lurching forwards
As events mutate
As decisions made by a few
Dictate the lives
Of billions.
But not everything changes
Some things stay the same.
Opher – 13.3.2022
Looking back through life one can see everything flowing along smoothly until, every now and then, there is a sudden jerk that changes things forever.
A sniper’s bullet killing an Archduke in Serbia leading to the First World War, the planes flying into the twin towers sparking waves of terrorism and horrendous wars that still resound through Brexit and Trump, now Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
History jumps into something different in an instant.