Shake Those Spears
South African.
Leafy goodness!
To be or not to be?
A consciousness of stream
The weight of human ignorance
Annihilates the dream
An agony of intellect
A crisis of the soul
Wherefore art thou now
O common human goal?
To sleep, perchance to steal
As violence touches all
Our modern take on fascism
Rides roughshod at the mall
Out, damned spot, out
Bleak future rears its head
Life’s but a walking shadow now
Please tell me, am I dead?
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rhubarb_j
Thanks for the comment Robert!
Yeah, it's pretty much Mad Max here in South Africa already, but things are looking pretty grim in Europe and the US too...
Where's Gene Roddenberry when you need him, 'eh?
:)
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Lampyris Noctiluca
I love your original use of Shakespeare, and the poem you crafted/assembled rhymes beautifully too. It's cool how the lines the weight of human ignorance / Annihilates the dream express an idea that is arguably opposite to Hamlet's: he seems to attribute the annihilation to reason (Thus conscience does make cowards of us all: / And thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought), whereas you blame it ignorance. Interesting!
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Robert Quick
I agree with much of the sentiment, specifically ignorance destroying the dream. I'd thought we were just a step away from the Star Trek future and now I think we're a step away from a Mad Max one instead. I appreciate the Shakespeare--I literally just got your title as I wrote that.