Forever Used To Seem Longer

Nothing lasts forever…except

maybe American cars in Cuba.

We measure time in nanoseconds

now, not eras, let alone eons.

Even lore is lost that connects us

with the past….we wrote down

everything so we forgot it…we

did realize that our history hasn’t

prepared us for this future. 

Humanity is becoming Eloi and 

Morlock, untethered to any but

base value….an archaic revival

of naiveté and ungroundedness,

like before our ancestors

discovered basic values, basic

human laws. We’re forgetting

everything that made us human

because we don’t have time to

think about it…or, care. An image

we see is who we think we are.

Our memories are implants from

the movies we face. Our identities

something we remember from a screen..