We'll Be Guilty Tomorrow

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..

 

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allets's picture

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.


 

 

lyrycsyntyme's picture

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.