In honor of Docudharma's 2nd anniversary. Crossposted there and on my blog.
Remember back when,
we let them work us?
Because we didn't know better
weren't practiced enough
too easily led.
Remember when we used to fight each other
over stupid stuff
not realizing we were like rodents at each other's throats
while meanwhile, the hawk swooped menacingly
laughing
well, that is if hawks could laugh.
And I like hawks
I just don't like the people in that hawk metaphor.
Remember back when
we thought we needed them?
The heavies, the big guys.
It was all so attractive, all that action.
And we thought we could really change each other
instead of changing into each other.
Now, sometimes
changing into each other
ain't all that bad.
In fact, it's kinda underrated
when it happens as a free-form process.
it's the controlled version that wasn't quite so good
not quite so happy
and the built in fighting
and the built in judging
and the built in publicity
that was too often about the fighting and the judging
that wasn't so good.
Remember when we realized that
we didn't have to do that
because we really didn't need that
because what we really needed
was each other?
Pure, unadulterated, each other.
Warts and all.
So here's to blogging the future
since it got us here
because somebody cared
and then some more people cared
and then a whole hell of a lot of more people cared
and then, one astonishing, amazing, frightening day
We were there.
We'd blogged the future, and it was us.
And none of us were the enemy anymore,
because we'd learned
that there doesn't have to be an enemy
because life itself is enough of a hassle.
now that we spend our time
with each other
instead of alone
enemies are relegated to fairy tales
They are things to warn children about
lest they become their own enemies
that would be bad
and we understand that now.
We understand the importance of
children, and their strangeness
and how wonderful that is
instead of something to be hit.
So thanks to those people
so long ago
too long ago
who blogged the future and saw these things
and how they must be
because it had to be
because there wasn't any other
way to do it
that worked.