I wake up to thoughts falling like daggers onto my mind
Memories of sweeter times try to cushion the pain
Living amongst strangers maybe for the last time
The future is no longer a comfort but more a fear
What has happened to my joy and optimism
Where is the promises of peace and understanding
Now ignorance, greed and ego form a dangerous mixture
Hate has become an elixir for the righteous
Power changes places with self pity and loathing
Idiocracy is amplified in 30 second clips
Mistrust dominates and not without reason
Without trust there can be no protection
I feel pain from knowing my own role in this
But realize that such things happened in earlier times
The technology that I thought would set us free
Leaves us with without a place to hide and be
Two Thirds Done 
Avram
An extraordinary poem and a comment as to the state of Jewish nation.
You expressed an exact sense of our dread and shock as to a nearly universal rise of an antisemitism.
Best
Michael
Sent from my iPhone
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Thank you for your comments.
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Yes, I agree with every line you write…
But
Future is neither a comfort nor a fear …
It is what we make of it, one individual effort at a time
And yes again, idiocy rules grandly in its many ways…
With technology its willing facilitator
But…
What defines our actions throughout our lives
Is nestled in our own thoughts and steadfast spirit
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perhaps the future is what we make of it for ourselves, but I for one don’t have the power to change things for others except in a very limited way. I fear for my children and grandchildren
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thanks for sharing this Avram
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A slight but important nuance, Avram
You infer “the future is what we make for ourselves” … I do not
The future is made one individual effort at a time, not for ourselves but for all humanity, supported by steadfast individual spirit
The whole point is never to back down, not now or ever and our individual role to approach that goal matters – in fact, it is decisive
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I agree with what you’re saying, but I also believe that we all we have our own personal future. We are part of humanity, but we are also ourselves. We are unique each of us.
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Yes of course, but what is exactly our ‘own personal future’
My answer is in the last two lines
“What defines our actions throughout our lives Is nestled in our own thoughts and steadfast spirit”
This is how I resolve the risk you pinpoint …
In so many words,
if there is no ‘steadfast spirit’, there are no thoughts and without thoughtfulness, there is no meaningful action directing our lives and then…there just is no future but just a jumble of meaningless gestures
What you call ‘our own personal future’ can only exist from that key starting point of ‘steadfastness’
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Thanks. I think we can leave it there.
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