…..Do the present always come out of the past, or can it come from the minds of men that have escaped their past; and can a man escape his past to create an actual future, will we need the past to bear witnesses in life’s court, expectations can be cut short in the present due to the scars of the past, that can tether a man fast, would it serve humanity’s purpose to keep unwanted events under its surface, hope this line of questioning isn’t making you nervous, I’m trying to find purpose, something that should be exalted, and wrote on fine papers in cursive. If we’re slaves to a unwanted past, is the present worth it. If the past can’t be forgotten, it can become subversive, it’s a beast that has to be brought under control, it’s power of suggestion is explosive.
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Author:
EvenwheniLie (Pseudonym) (
Online) - Published: February 18th, 2023 21:18
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The past as justification for today's retribution - no!
The past as a clear lesson from which a better course of action may be found - yes....
It gets more complicated then that Doggerel Dave when you’re the victim of history, history doesn’t just happen around us, it happens to us.. we are often time negatively molded by history, that is why the poem initially asked the question does the present always come from the past, or out of the minds of men that have escaped their past…
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