Scarecrow
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
Evading the onslaught of privacy attacks begs reminders of what once was. (Image artlimited)
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Scarecrow
by Odin Roark
Hiding among life’s traditional cornstalks,
Solipsistic intrusion of privacy
Torrents through our hoed independence,
That once protected human right.
Like a dike whose flood gates have burst,
Yesterday’s gentle greening of intrinsic responsibility
Lays fallen as invasional flood,
Fear’s mud-caked casualties.
How insidious
This deluge beneath our foundation
Rushing to escape around
The labor-worn shoe leather
Of our toil.
Footing begins to collapse
As we turn to authority,
Now but a rag-tag mockery
Where once stood strong
Our reliable scarecrow,
Now slowly sinking into
The mire of failure.
Black-winged darkness continues it hover,
Occasionally pecking away
At the carrot-nosed face
Of what once protected promise.
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In the beginning, only the Sumerian King and his scribes knew the language they were writing. From then on until Gutenberg, only the high people of the church and the monks were allowed to read and re-create the sacred manuscripts.
With Gutenberg we were able to bring reading and writing to the masses. Many improvements in technology during the 20th century led science fiction writers to speculate about what would happen in novels like 1984 and Brave New World. With the Internet, spy satellites, and drones, all within government control, we are on the verge of all the predictions, and need to rewrite the articles of the Constitution to meet our much changed societal demands.
Ron
Prtotected: As Only You Alone Can Save Yourself!
TRASK..
did they turn out to be muzzle flashes? Nice job, Odin.