What have we learned?

Knowledge of the dead we have spurned,

Stepped over them like so much flotsam,

For all intents & purposes their past is burned…

Where do we go from this point?

Do we allow ourselves to accept death,

It is after all is said and done for what we do strive,

Our past but memories, our futures but hopes,

Off the cliff of death do we eventually drive…

Like ants in a row,

Our numbers do grow,

Crushing asunder the dead,

Forgetting what they had in their head…

Passing up knowledge for pleasure,

Getting in as much as we can leisure,

Playing the lottery looking for treasure,

Life in general a circle, just for good measure…

© ed ~ 3/15/06