Something Big - Aug 14 2022

 

Something Big

Aug 14 2022

Living through history

rarely feels like it.

Because the day-to-day

is already too much.

And because most things happen slowly enough

we adjust

and normalize.

Or the other way around;

when the current event

seems monumental

generational

changes everything;

the halcyon before

the Hobbesian after.

Forgetting

that we always forget

or get it wrong.

That attention wanes

and once again

the present will fill our field of vision

when the new day dawns.

Still, I feel we're on the cusp

of something big.

Too much, all at once, has changed,

and not for the best.

But then, I'm old,

and the good old days

may only seem that way,

air-brushed

by memory's golden glow,

prejudiced

by the usual impatience

the departing generation

has for the next.

So if a future historian is reading this

she may be smiling indulgently

at my unfounded fears.

Either that, or nodding her head

in the world that came after,

biting her lip

and holding back the tears.

Wishing she were here

in the good old days;

the before

she's too young to have lived.