mankind ….. my, oh my!!!

 

getting to know more about history

just a little bit is enough

that it becomes very obvious

which forces are driving mankind

especially the menfolk of mankind

and even more so, the white male

 

greed for more and more and even more

power over others, dominance

and the never sleeping lust

for sex

 

i don’t say that from a moral or religious high ground

just to state the facts as i see them

 

and to acknowledge

that i am disgusted

 

expansionism

imperialism

colonialism

slavery

dictatorship

genocide

militarism

capitalism

communism

one war after the other

unbelievable slaughter and cruelties

ongoing all the way from Genghis Khan

to Syria and Myanmar

and everything in between

 

and the plans are already drawn up for a Space Force

to bring weapons up there into the sky

 

my oh my! 

what for???

 

what to do and will it ever stop?

 

the temptation is great, really great to look away

to think the past is gone and the atrocities of today

are far away from our – mostly – comfortable life

 

but i don’t want that

don’t want to look away

and retreat into my private blissful castle

 

i will continue to look and witness my kind ….. mankind

 

i allow my heart to break over it

 

maybe this helps

a little