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We'll Be Guilty Tomorrow
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Commentary on Apocalypses We'll be guilty for yesterday
Tomorrow
We'll be guilty for tomorrow's crimes
Yesterday
Between all the word play
And all the lost days
Spent in the windmills of decadence
We blew wishes
On the suffering of others
And those seedheads - beautiful to us
Spread into the wind
Found their way
And their roots dug in
We laid claim
Passed the blame
From yesterday to tomorrow
And from tomorrow back to yesterday
Oh, between the word play
These baton games
Books will condemn us
But we won't be there for the sentence
Though many - most - among us were used
And tossed aside, when used up, anyway
By the masters of crime
Who move dollars and power across time
And watch us do their bidding for the crumbs
Watch us pass the baton of blame
Back and forth among each other
and time - hoping not
To do the time
For our and their crimes
We'll be guilty for today
Tomorrow
We were guilty for tomorrows crimes
Yesterday
We'll lay claim
Pass the blame
From today to tomorrow
And from tomorrow back to today,
Back to yesterday..
We Thrive On Guilt
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Denying the existance of guilt, not acknowleging it, we continue to sin destroying Earth at top of list. "We" practice the 10 Commandments in opposition. Time being a human motif, becomes a great place to stash sorry and oops! Emotionally blank - erased by overload, by dead caring faculties. Add ego absolutely, me first displaced by me only. Start? Where? "Yesterday, is gone...Let the dead be dead," Sandburg said.
Yes, absolutely. It couldn't
Yes, absolutely. It couldn't be said better than you have - we do "stash sorry and oops" in the timeline. On a system level, it's hard to think of a better example of this exercise than when a declassified document from decades ago shows the intelligence agencies committing a crime against humanity (ie. spraying biological weapons on Saint Louis), and the response from government and punditry alike is "oh, we don't do that anymore." They file it away in the timeline, and many of us follow suit. Leaving us blissfully unaware (on the surface) of what people decades from now will be filing away in the timeline about what crimes intelligence agencies are committing the very same moment they said those magical stashing words - "oh, we don't do that anymore."
Overload of information does encourage these hurtful behavioral practices among the masses, which is why I have little time for quarreling over the way to commemorate the death of radio pundits. We must spread our energies carefully, lest we become a human facebook timeline - a nonstop span of pictures, thoughts, information and (largely) filler that occupies the length of our existence, but is never truly absorbed and impactful.