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Feeling
Posted: 07 May 2023
Word Count: 67
Summary: Last gasp entry for the challenge.
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That feeling has returned
when words are not my own
my history lost in
the blink of an eye, its
flight unseen, a blip in
the system.
All things will pass they say
reality - negotiable
the lethal secrets
of tyrants are
transitory, banal.
Are we actors, miming,
bouncing like flies between
invisible barriers
whilst the distracted playwrite
remains rigidly averse
to prompt us from the wings?
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 V`yonne at 15:00 on 07 May 2023
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the lethal secrets
of tyrants are
transitory, banal
Yes you see it all time and yet somehow they are alos repetitous as tyrants are always with us thought their names change!
I loved this Tempest type ending
Are we actors, miming,
bouncing like flies between
invisible barriers
whilst the distracted playwrite
remains rigidly averse
to prompt us from the wings?
It does feel like that. We control so little of what actually goes on around our short lives.
Good thoughts, Bill. Glad you joined in!
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 michwo at 20:51 on 07 May 2023
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"All things must pass." Was that a George Harrison record? The only problem being, I suppose, that, on occasion, and all too often, they take a long time to pass like this criminal waste of people and resources in Ukraine by an archetypal tyrant who'd be a pantomime villain if he wasn't so dangerous. So long live King Charles but down with Putin! Wars don't really conform to scripts and can only really be understood as history in retrospect, something even Shakespeare recognized, I think, so hardly surprising if, in the present moment,
the distracted playwright
remains rigidly averse
to prompt us from the wings?
He doesn't know himself how things are going to work out eventually.
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 crowspark at 11:41 on 08 May 2023
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Thanks Oonah and Michael.
King James Bible, Matthew 24:6-8
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass.
Although George Harrison was more succinct.
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V`yonne at 13:12 on 08 May 2023
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One of my mother's favourites that quote. I think she had it on one of those Bible verses pictures with flowers on that people used to put in the bedrooms.
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