I am afraid of our world,
of the direction
in which we are moving,
driven by our greed,
our endless selfishness.
Whatever I do, there is no escape any more,
no way to get out of it,
to hide,
to run from the consumption.
Destruction has become part of normality.
I am afraid among you,
afraid of our hypocritical, sanctimonious, foolish civilisation.
We damage so much.
Morality has become a matter for legal interpretation.
Truth is a narrative.
Self-restraint is a joke,
and everything is a product.
I am afraid of what awaits us
if this mad giant falls,
if, in a world turned into a marketplace, one raw material runs out,
if people realise
that their own leaders deceived them,
if they realise they were lied to,
that they were made to sacrifice their own children's future
under the false promise of endless consumption,
and hopelessness,
fear,
and primitive, scapegoating rage once again
turn the world
into a place of horrors ----
in a matter of minutes.
I am afraid of this roaring blindness.
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