A poem by Jennifer Mena 4/14/22

 Insanity


Insane to repeat and repeat

like the hands of a clock,

And expect a change



Insane to see all your failings

And believe that if I close my eyes

And do them myself,

I should expect a better outcome


Insanity 


Insane to disregard 

Past warnings of wars and disasters,

Past examples of foolishness and hate,

And believe us immune... 

"Too civilized"



Insane to think that we are 

Separated from the ‘savagery’ 

When the ‘savages’ are only 

Separate from us in time and nothing more


Madness!


When we forbid our children from books

from those who knew better.


Lunacy!


When we deem it unlawful for those 

Of "unacceptable" skin or gender

To speak from their perspective.


Absurdity!


To have the world and its glories...

The world and its atrocities,

At the palm of our hands.

Yet choose to be blind and return to a time

when the unfortunates lacked the knowledge.



Delusions


Should we not have learned from

Von Braun's façade? 

Justifying steps for Man-kind

as those steps trampled

Germany, Austria, and Poland


Idiocy


To allow Vladamir's failed distraction

of more promises to the moon. 

Like a Jr. Brezhnev once did


Absurdity


To not teach of Prohibition's poison,

Or the trial and neglect of the industrialist,

Or the origins of our lives as human beings


Still allowing our children to believe in 

a flat world where the neanderthals 

never walked, and the confederates were

heroes of the people.


Insanity


To not salvage our History

For the sake of salvaging 

our future

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