MY SHORT TIME ON EARTH

MY SHORT TIME ON EARTH

In this time of rapid change

I've seen mother earth attempt to shake herself of this disease. Cities succumb to the seas and rains in a wonderfully unconcerned display of natural cycles, leaving them in ruins to this day. Thousands were claimed by ocean. Racial differences were to blame. Natures fury collides with man's mistake.

I've seen the youth take control. World leaders erected and collapsed just as fast by those who dream for better times, romanticism in it's most human form.

I've read the human conduction blogged in 140 characters. Emotions were written in stone for all to see till the end of time in a natural attempt to seek comfort from another logical being, anyone.

I've watched as cultural differences make buildings fall in cities where all races of the earth live together. People mourn for one another as if they were friends. I saw Christians protecting Muslims on their knees for the Adhán as bullets flew around them. I heard the chants calling for the times in the Square.

I've seen politicians kill themselves on the evening news, dictators pulled from the ground and hung as the world cheered together. I've seen beautiful compassion as students died in their classrooms by the hands of their peers. They said it was a dark time, I cried for a nation holding each other in their arms.

I watched fear rule lives. I was told if I went outside I'd get sick. People smiled in surgical masks on the trains and busses. Swine, Cows, Birds. They told me the lights wouldn't come back on, but they did.

I've witnessed original thoughts go unnoticed and formless ideas praised. I've seen great artists finish their craft on their deathbed, books burned for provoking thought, people pushed down for standing up.

I've seen humanity roam the final frontier, reaching the unknown and returning to tell their story. Endlessly searching for the greater meaning and the eye in the sky.

My eyes have seen all too much and yet not enough in my short time here with you. I'm left standing alone watching the sun all day long without a mother to cover my eyes. I can't look away from the burning sun.