Sometimes I think that we’ve lost the humanity that defines us as Humans. We’ve lost our way in the grand scheme of things…if a grand scheme ever existed. We’ve adopted systems that don’t work for everyone. Systems that divide and conquer and build wealth for the few. That value material wealth over the wellbeing of our lives and of our planet. We’ve been fed the lie that we are more intelligent than other species and therefore ride rough shod over them, and nature as a whole. How can we be more intelligent when we are on the brink of destroying everything, including ourselves? I was sitting here, this morning pondering the mess that we’ve allowed to happen and wondering to myself “where do we go from here?” This poem just kind of flowed out as I sat and wondered if the future brings hope or despair.
We’ve turned our backs on refugees
They don’t look the same as you and me
Their religions are a blasphemy
Where do we go from here?
We’ve declared war on foreign lands
We’ve played and then died on the sands
We’ve both burned books and had them banned
Where do we go from here?
We’ve polluted water, earth and air
Killed off species, don’t seem to care
Have security cameras everywhere
Where do we go from here?
Dictators, Despots, Socialist States
Autocrats who watch and wait
Who lie to divide us, we take the bait
Where do we go from here?
We’re obsessed with our material world
Pledge allegiance to the flag unfurled
On-line petty insults hurled
Where do we go from here?
We allow pipelines across sacred lands
We turn away from outstretched hands
‘Cause we’ve got our friends here on broadband
Where do we go from here?
We allow all this but won’t be shamed
To possessions and baubles we are chained
Can common sense yet be reclaimed?
Where DO we go from here?
A Literary Bent 
Where do we go from here? I wish I knew.
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I think we are waking up from something we didn’t even realize… once that happens, big change happens. Lovely poem, by the way…
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