Vision

Yesterday

Yesterday
I looked into my eyes

Rather

I looked inside my eyes

And found

Desolation

A bare
Parched
Desiccated vision

Once

It seems an age ago

The space behind my eyes
Was filled with such beauty

All was lush
Verdant

Alive

Now

Well

Now

Delving through my lives
Lives held captive
Surrounded by government
By specialists

I am bereft of care

All I see
Are trappings
Gaudy baubles

The relics of a species doomed

I watch
Silently

As you cling
With such desperation
To your democracy
Autocracy
Technocracy

Pick a name for your government

Government

It is the weak
Telling the strong
The vibrant
How to be

Preaching of freedom
Free will
Progress

Whilst legislating
To restrict
Divert
Remove
All those things

Designed
Promoted
Enforced

By specialists

Specialists
The ultimate conservatives
Defining the limits
Of our lives

Where are all the generalists
Those omnivorous people
Able to tackle
To overcome

Anything

Am I the last

Am I the end of the line
So

Here I am

The day after yesterday

Contemplating the day before

Where all was vibrant

Alive

Full of promise

Today

Where my tears
Touch not
The cracked skin of my mind

Where hope

For myself
For the future

For us

Has evaporated

Where no movement
Stirs the air

No waft of dust
Gives depth to my vision

Today

Where the only vision
Inside these eyes

A desert
Wherein I perceive

No humanity

© 2012, Mosquitobyte