Self sustenance
...by the end of the parade
Who are we at the end of the parade,
the parade of Life the parade of time in spite of Education...
in spite of training, in spite of everything that life brought to us?
...who is it and what is it that brings us
when life brings us to the end of the parade what are we then?
TRAINED?
EDUCATED?
to be the support, the foundation as the ENABLER
we carry the weight of others
garner the strife of their life and lives surrounding them
as our own.
WAR IN THE DISTANCE (but I've done my time)
CIVIL UNREST AMONG POPULATIONS (we hold back the negative ideal)
TRAINED... EDUCATED... EMPLOYED
as the intermediary
so that in and of ourselves
we are become the SELF SUSTAINING to our own life.
I intervene where your reproduction is your necessity for survival
my survival relies upon MY endurance under stress
My long-awaited third child is aborted for cause of mobilization
to the rescue of your societal ills...
inoculations for malaria... measles... smallpox... yellow fever
or injected with aids...
at double time
brings me to a close
in my own world...
and I am put to line
that you may be enabled...
and we face time flying our own flag
At the end of the line
in the world parade.
About the Creator
CarmenJimersonCross
proper name? CarmenJimersonCross-Safieddine SHARING LIFE LIVED, things seen, lessons learned, and spreading peace where I can.
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