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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2005-04-17 12:22 PM

Some believe life is but dust
blowing in winds of chance,
‘til death stills the winds.
Here, in this silent stillness;
despair pervades thought,
creates a world of zombies
with rock hearts and ice minds.

And now, even angels
no longer set foot in this place
for who would frequent a world
where death is the final legacy
and the masters choose it this way?

Do the rhythms of the sea;
its tides and flux and streams
tell us there is more?
No longer: not the sea, why would it?
No, not the sea, but whales!
Ahhh, the whales who still sing
their strange songs within the waters
and halfway across the globe
their brethren hear and respond.

But technology rips the song apart:
a technology of instant gratification;
of instant death: the whale dies first
then the worshiper of alien thought,
the maker of death – the man
also dies, silenced by his own noise.

No good standing upon the shore
today: the song has died and yes,
earth life has become nothing
but a speck of cosmic dust.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2005-04-17 01:10 PM

Deeply pessimistic, but I understand ... it's really high time to surface from dumbness into the awareness of what we have done to life and Earth!

May the whales continue to communicate and may we hear!

Powerful write.

Love, Margherita

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2005-04-17 01:47 PM

Technology is indeed, a double-edged sword. It appears that many of the advances of mankind, come with a price ~ and often it is Mother Nature who pays it.

EA

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

3 posted 2005-04-17 03:38 PM

I bought a Cd of whale songs

Maybe there wont be anymore to record if they carry on

Excellent words

Dave

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2005-04-17 03:44 PM

"the man
also dies, silenced by his own noise"

So true Windwalker! I enjoyed and agree with all your thoughts here.

yv
Senior Member

since 2003-05-30

Posts 574

5 posted 2005-04-17 04:07 PM

Wow. That really touched me. You have spoken the truth of what Jamiroquai so perfectly labeled "Virtual Insanity." I truly dug this poem.

Yv-Goddess of Her Domain. Symbol of Truth Passion Pain. Let Her Smile Rain on the Hearts of the Innocent.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2005-04-17 04:08 PM

cool write!

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