Tribe.net. Local Connections Merlin http://lisapoetry.tribe.net/thread/1a49a39b-c35d-495e-a2eb-58a3d3ac7394#3c819602-15b8-4953-8d2a-700ec292918b 2008-12-12T21:52:15Z 2008-12-12T21:52:15Z

Eos arises to wake Helios to ride his chariot across the Heavens, As I arise to the invariable dawn of the dilapidated day to come. Bringing with it an insipid populace to digress, In muddled masses within their own bemused existences. Through the mind's eye impeded by an expedited culture, Intolerable of uninhibited thought; Or could it be that I am intolerant? Intolerant of the conventional social life that is the American dream, Of a house, Two-car garage, Wrapped in a white picket fence, A wife, 2.5 children, A cat, Dog, And a gerbil. I shudder in fear at this fate of a 'civilized' life, Wilting away within a growing darkness of the monotonous, Mind-numbing parasites that are the upper middle-class... Day after day, their meaningless lives drone on incessantly, Reminiscent of a pair of twin propeller engines of a DC-9, Throbbing in thunderous succession. The very thought of this sort of habitual routine becoming my own, Aggravates my psyche into feverous madness, Frantically clawing away at the roof of my skull, In hopeless desperation to flee from the cubicle working class drudgery, Until death do us part... Eos arises to wake Helios to ride his chariot across the Heavens, As I arise to the invariable dawn of the dilapidated day to come. I sigh with a heavy heart, Mulling over endless inquiries of what is, Can, May, Could or could not be, A pure and true awareness of self. Is there, no longer, a place on this shallow Earth for a free mind? Have we as Humanity hit a brick wall? Who, then, is left to ponder and question This progression of knowledge and lack of understanding as to why we are here? What has happened to the, ever increasing, theories of what comes next? Where have all the philosophers gone? When will selfishness, greed, hate and bloodshed become taboo? ...If ever... Peace is not a hope in this day and age; Instead becoming more and more like a deplorable cruel joke, A might more mythical than a man liviing in the moon... ...Made of cheese. What has happened to us since the Renaissance? Is this what has become of the Age of Enlightenment? Why is every novel idea to come along, now challenged as false, Before contemplated upon as a possible truth? How has Mankind become the stagnant, socio-cultural idiot savant it is today? Will we ever stop with this obsessive compulsive, Self-gratification to 'upgrade' our lives? HDTVs, iPods, Blue Ray Discs, Digital Cameras Or anything else we may come across in the new mega-stores of gadgets galore. Forget Global Warming. Forget Starvation. Forget Disease. Forget the War. Forget the Threats of WWIII. Forget Poverty. Forget the Hate. Forget Genocide. Forget the Exchange of Blood for Oil. Forget the Dying and Dead. Forget it All. Shut yourselves away from the rest of the world, Hiding within your comfortable suburbanite track homes, And complain about the REAL problems of your own little worlds: Rising gas prices, Raised taxes, Recession, The switch to High Definition And the size of your fucking television set. Utter nonsense to prattle on and on about, Sheltering the populace from the callous realities of this newborn century, Frighteningly evocative of 1984. Eos arises to wake Helios to ride his chariot across the Heavens, Illuminating an ever expanding, chasm unto social redundancy. Michael Stipe sings it best: "It's the end of the World as we know it... And I feel fine."

Merlin 2008-12-12T21:52:15Z