Nearly

Today’s revolution

Is tomorrow’s discarded generation.

 

Cynicism is something none can afford;

Empty the purse of apathy

 

– but –

 

“It’s never been done before.”

 

If this were allowed to lead our values,

We’d still be feasting on raw flesh daily.

 

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Just because most people are,

 

You don’t have to be indifferent.

 

The servants have outgrown their boots

Using them to crush the ants;

 

Time for them to be reminded

Of the individual’s relevance.

 

Sure –

 

Sometimes humanity disappoints,

Sometimes it horrifies,

 

But I urge collective maintaining of its essence

Before the point of everything dies.

 

Author's Note

Does any of this make sense? Thanks.

Reviews

[Gandré]

Yes you are shaking us, you make us aware. Lines of criticism developed into the first cognitive revolution. There is a massive influence of individuum by collective behaviorism
If this were allowed to lead our values,

We’d still be feasting on raw flesh daily.



Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Just because most people are,-------->>>> and with this poem you search for correlations between publicly observable phenomena and a regularity conception of causality. Yes, to me it made lots of sense. I liked this.

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Thank you for reading my new essay. This essay is not about God; it is about how we always need a background and a correlation to make a meaning. I use the word "God" or Gods for I explaining my point of view, how I see world but I am not a believer nor am I a atheist. How could I be, when I am a part of the whole? We are - Gods. Intelligence is self-evolving the universe is self-organizing, I wrote many many times (you perhaps didn't read) but I posted over 600 if not 650 poems here on caf� and perhaps 75 essays about how I see things, they all have the same idea, that all religions are kind of same thing, and that we all by being conscious write in kind of same consciousness what I call The Greater Mind, this is the spiritual part of perhaps how I am aware of myself and my world. Thank you very much for reading this long piece and leaving me your wonderful thoughts about it.

[Hedra Helix]

Im not sure if this is gramatically on point ( psch..yea right, me know? hah!) but I think I like it more because im not so sure.

-But I urge collective maintaining of its essence
Before the point of everything dies.



we still have the cave man instincts but the world around us is too plush to play them out and still play nice. catch 22 sabertooths

[Rain]

You've been delving into some shark invested waters to do some of your writing, of late. I think it's given an edginess to it, which I love. We might not always agree, but man, I think you go where man has gone before, but goes no-more. You are striking at the very nerve that needs to be hit, and I love. We are becoming the living dead who can walk around during the day. This is a great write. Rain..

[Damien Dsoul]

"Today's revolution
Is tomorrow's discarded generation."

Your tone and style is both calmly objective and didactically poetic. For a while back, I even thought you were talking to me, especially through those captivating first line of yours.

[Bubo]

If this were allowed to lead our values,
We'd still be feasting on raw flesh daily.

Indifference.
One thing I can't stand, rather anger, or emotion, than a blank indifference that makes me think
i don;t exist at all................you have caught that so well, some powerful thoughts in this piece.

[Deborah Leah Krempa]

A very well written poem. Thank you for sharing. Debileah

[Emily B]

I thought the combination of the first two lines was a jewel. And then I read the second group, and it was more valuable. I like the lines about the servants boots crushing ants. I'm not sure why, I just do.

[Touché Armada]

Yep I think lose the last six lines.
Till the conclusion its great =D