Poetic Perspective (part 5) -Opportunity Lost, Lessons Forgotten

OPPORTUNITY LOST, LESSONS FORGOTTEN
Technology has evolved but have we as people?

If we have, then how come we still don’t respect other people?

Their views, their opinions, their beliefs

We just seem to think about, “me, me, me”

We find what we believe to be reality

Instead of seeing others as being unique

We see them as being different, as the “Other”, as being diseased

Needing to be cured

If they don’t conform, they are ignored

Pushed to the fringes, stigmatized, and pushed away

So what does that say about civilization today?

Gays and Lesbians, Jews, and Immigrants - tolerated due to “Hate Laws”
Laws used to hide civilization’s flaws

To pretend we’re better than we really are

But watch how everyone stares

When they do not want you there

Awkward conversations and strained words

Absurd because nothing is really shared

Opportunity lost, lessons forgotten

Every generation is the same, we hope for a change

But we forget that we have already got to this stage

Then disaster strikes and we look for scapegoats

All those differences that were tolerated before now seem to, “rock the boat”
Immigration rules change and Refugee laws get created and enacted

Will “progress” go backwards? Will our attitudes and behaviors become retroactive?

Intolerance is bred, hate resumes

Until our whole civilization is engulfed and consumed

Opportunity lost, Lessons forgotten