Optimistic Decline

A vastness  dwarfed by our own failings and inabilities

Who do we call upon to create our new paradigm ?

For surely , concretely , this and nothing less will save us

Lead by example ? Our sentimental clingings to the built world pushing future generations into the dark tunnel  of want

Where is the example ? A light in the tunnel , for our canary has surely passed

Moving into this landscape of decline , doomed souls pushing their way into a world stretched thin and held together by greed. 

Why do we struggle when the religion of denial caresses our urgent need for change?

Lulls us to sleep with the very agents of our destruction 

Our buttons pushed to want , picking up our own remote and choosing a mood , an appetite 

The quest for the day/moment , to satiate that want 

And if your life cannot be gratified , if doubt and longing creep in to bitterly ,alas your savior is at hand , so many manipulators of your desire waiting steadfastly to soothe you into deadly apathy.

No , don't change your life ,change your meds, your addictions , your seething want

Become less in the face of what you cannot see

Believe that which is spoon fed to you 

Create nothing but trash and be governed by lustful desire

But then as lighting crashes into your house of cards what do you see???

When the agents of passive destruction complete their task , what do you feel ??

When there is nothing left to mollify your reality , what do you hear ???

When your labors become that for which you will be rewarded , what will you create??

As the rise of change comes  riding a massive  tide , what will be left upon the shore ? 

When the enemy is staring you in the face with striking familiarity, what will you reach for??

Will we be able to live the answer of what it is to be a HUMAN BEING ????

In loving thy neighbor as thyself will we find redemption ? 

Will we grapple with our own narcissistic existence and escape the cages we have so wantonly created ?

Our zoo of humanity , pacing and feral , shaking the bars to consume our keepers? 

For our needs are simple , and in this web of complexity we have become trapped

Our decline is coming , and in it our salvation 

For that which is needed will be met by our optimism 

It will break the spell 

For are we not free ???