第一届现代机器立刻把一千多人失去工作

TIME GOT AHEAD OF US

I try to see it your way

yet the way you see things

is a stunningly blinding experience

with all the tears we’ve shed

creating rivers washing away

rational thoughts from our heads.

We mourn for a better past than a present

that is easy to resent

for we feel no control over much of anything

including our own soul.

Sure we can take the tour

and see snow domed mountains,

seas so deep no one is certain of the secrets

the depths their sulfur fountains

have kept for so long now;

but everywhere we go—

we yet look through each other’s eyes,

to see there are still the same reasons we cry.

tourists tread among the dead of sacred lands,

thinking holy are the footsteps left on cultures diminished—

but now finished by an unending modernization plan

now over a century old since it began.

A good trip, a wonderful plan would be

to just, to stand still with you

holding my hand in the comfortable old ways,

like we did in the old gone days.

When we shared a set of younger eyes

focused on the prize of fearless freedom,

now forgotten trying to learn we, the foolish ones,

the sum spent simply trying to live until the day we die.

© M Durfee

3.17.2015

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.
- Mother Teresa