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WE ARE HERE

This place, this planet, its people -
we are here, each in our own minds
busy, each so occupied
we have forgotten why.

It is a game, you know
and the big kids on the playground
pick their teams
and make the rules to win.

We think we know what winning is,
what it means to have
almost everything
new and fresh at our fingertips.

We have won so much
that we have forgotten
how to make things work,
how to fix the broken,

how to care for what we have -
especially our old ones.
We are here – each so occupied
we have forgotten why.

Posted by John Dofflemyer on September 16, 2009 5:36 AM |

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