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Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Song of the Future
The howl of ignorance,
the call of stupidity
thunders through the halls of government,
the crude and inexorable advancement
of the lie in public spaces,
supplanting intelligence
making a mockery of science
disbanding the common good
condemning compassion and
sentencing the future to an
abyss of misfortune and
needless suffering
on the thunderous wings of
violence and greed.
Is this the song of the future?
Where truth is perpetually
put on trial
and peace is sacrificed on an
altar fashioned from the
bones of the innocent
lost to the lunacy of war and
ruthless ambition.
Is this the song of the future?
Where what lies ahead is
treacherous terrain
filled with foreboding and grief,
where children are taught
to honor what is destructive and hateful,
where the intellect suffers
from a profound lack of nutrition.
Is this the song of the future?
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