Everywhere I look, most everyone seems to be running around, faster and faster, like they’re going to miss ‘the boat’ or something, not realizing that ‘the boat’ has already left. That ‘boat’ was never meant for us … just for propagandists and vested interests … IMHO

Social Treadmill

So why?

Most everyone
Frantically moving
Faster and faster
As fast as they can
Without falling
Without tripping
Themselves up
Mostly

But

Most ‘trip themselves up’
Eventually
Inevitably
If not in
Giddy youth
Then in
Middle and old age

What is so important
That we must keep moving
Faster and faster
Pushing harder and harder
Even as abilities and strength
Decline
Or are perhaps
Just episodic

Again …
To what end?

Surely not
The end?

Most of society
Seems awfully eager
To just skip to it

Acceleration
Till the explosion

Then dissipation
And return to
The Void

–LE