Diana Darby ** "I V" ** Intravenous

Falling Down

It’s all going down.
This country.
Our dollar.
Our position as being a country that actually stands for something.
The market is falling.
Oil is rising.
And gold is reaching all time new highs.
I wonder what will happen soon.
When will we finally wake up to the danger we are in?
It is as if we have lost all sense of ourselves.
All sense of what is right and wrong.
We have stopped feeling,
Stopped wondering,
Stopped remembering why we are here.
There is only the mad dash to take more and make more
and outdo and undo.
The elephants are dying,
cut down for their tusks
so the rich can wear them around their necks as trinkets.
They lie in fields rotting,
their stench deafening.
But we don’t look.
All we see is the lady eating
shark fin soup wearing the fine necklace.
I wonder when it will end?
How many more people will die
before we stop and look at each other
and asks ourselves what the Hell we are doing.