THE END OF POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS
Who’s going to
take you,
break you
and then remake you
into something you
have passed through before
yet forged ahead with no notice?
Did you leave a light at every crossroads
and pray for the
noise of your shuffling feet
not blow out the glow;
for finding a way
to remade is harder
in the dark streets overblown in desert sands
awash in a flash
of a forever moment flooded with intolerance.
Can you stand high and safe defining
the moment’s political correctness
and unharness the
reality of
what is right yesterday,
wrong today,
and tomorrow;
well tomorrow is not defined yet for no study has been paid
for.
Every definition
of a part has an engineering cost,
especially high
for them needing a loan
to be made into right yesterday,
wrong today,
and tomorrow soft
enough to be told where to stand.
Did you leave that light
at every crossroad you
hopefully, slowly, thoughtfully passed
that you may find your return,
re-turn and remake yourself
rather than have others tell you
who it is you are to become?
© M Durfee
7.21.2014
Miss one crossroad light and all is lost. Remake yourself from scratch with whatever materials are available. Pop people.
ReplyDeleteThat first part is true, lose one light and you may not make it back to take the other road in the then. But now i am surrounded by shit, totally encased in it. I guess i could make myself into a cow pie.
DeleteI've only left blazes behind me that I call memories. I doubt I'll ever get a chance to retrace my steps, though.
ReplyDeleteThat Sir is the Bummer of living. Never can go back to the best parts.
Delete'. . . a light at every crossroads . . .' Where are we going, where have we been?
ReplyDeleteDon't know where hell is so i am not sure of the way to where I am going is, but there are some crossroads I'd like to go back to and take the other road.
Delete... tomorow will never come ... at least not the tomorrow I desire ... came to terms with that a long time ago ... . and that's okay, baby ... smiles. Love u, Cat.
ReplyDeleteMeowmomma i used to believe that until i read about tomorrow and today got smacked in the head with yesterdays newspaper.
DeleteWhat is going on is their novel, the one they force you to watch. It is not your novel.
ReplyDeleteTheough diabolically craftere, their novel sucks canal water!
It would be so much easier to be nothing more than a character in someone elses writing.
DeleteAll I do these days is look back. Could I, would I have done anything different in the same circumstances? Hindsight is easy. Regret is not. xo
ReplyDeleteJodi do not let your sorrow become regret for the past. You did not fail.
DeleteTrying each day to leave a little light. Some days I glow brighter than others.
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