Complacency 2007

Complacency


In my oppression
I am tired and complacent
working too hard
to lift my head up
speak up, push up against it.

At times the oppressor
the two percent of the world’s wealthiest
people running governments
and business and guns
dictating the use of resources
and creating little wars
to settle scores
mafia-like familia tantrums
seems inescapably, densely complex
powerful, uninhibitable
invisible yet omnipresent
running the whole show backstage
while we act on the stage
of our lives, working, worrying,
showing up for war duty
taking our orders
passively surrendering
losing the freedom, the liberty
to edit the script
rewrite the lines, alter destiny.

But why worry?
Yin to Yang. Yang to Yin.
May take 300 years - maybe less.
In nature it is never
high noon or midnight
longer than that moment.
A reassuring and terrible thought.