Teach Your Children Well

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.   Ecclesiastes 1:9

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night— then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.   Ecclesiastes 8:16-17

we said we would change

the world;

a new society,

the great experiment,

we were different,

a higher standard,

we knew more,

knew better,

we were the solution,

not the problem;

make love not war,

tune in, drop out,

hell no, we won’t go,

rebels with a cause,

defenders of the righteous;

instead we became

more of the same;

just more hypocrites,

in a world of hypocrites,

masters of enlightenment

without the light,

monsters disguised as

children of peace,

dogs licking up their own vomit,

white-washed sepulchers,

dry bones,

sheep without a Shepard;

we fooled the world,

we fooled ourselves;

we became activists,

poets and musicians,

stock brokers and analysts,

doctors and lawyers,

anything but our mothers

and fathers;

we became consumers,

we became users,

we became takers,

we became the future;

we pointed our fingers,

we blamed the man,

we blamed the over thirty crowd,

only to realize we had become

the man,

we were the over

thirty crowd;

it was all about us,

The ‘me’ generation,

gods of our own making;

we taught our

children well.

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