Buckle Up

John Prophet

The Twenty First Century

will be like no other.


For millennia

the human race

experienced

glacial progress forward.


Generation after generation

pretty much the same.


Then

slowly

at first things began to

change.


The Bronze Age,

the Iron Age,

jump to the Industrial Revolution

and now

the Technological Revolution.

The pace

of progress

has been ever

quickening,

speeding up,

soon

it will be moving

at light speed.

A compression point

will then be reach

when


this light speed of change

causes

a paradigm shift

for humanity.

Our differences

will melt away

as not relevant

in the new reality.

Power brokers

will loose control

of the buttons

and levers

they used

to control.

Humanity

writ large

will be calling the

shots.

Institutions of "influence"

will be swept away.

Greedy

power merchants

swept away,


never

to be seen again.

Poverty and illness,

swept away.

The roller coaster

ride is upon us.


Buckle up,

it's going to be one

hell off a ride.

  • Author: John Prophet (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: August 13th, 2017 08:22
  • Category: Surrealist
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  • Accidental Poet

    As long as those Power Brokers don't get us all killed first. But a great bit of writing here collinsjg

    • John Prophet

      Thank you kindly, the next 10 years or so should tell the story.

      • Accidental Poet

        Maybe even less.

      • Louis Gibbs

        A lofty goal for humanity you describe ... but then what would we do for lessons? What would be the point of being here? Just saying.
        A deep, thought-provoking poem here, JG. Well done!

        • John Prophet

          Who knows what lessons await us on the other side? Thank you for reading my work.



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