You Lied to Us
You told us you couldn't.
You swore that you wouldn't.
You said it was impossible
To change that much that fast.
You called the rest of us dreamers,
Idealist, unrealistic.
You laughed at us.
Then, in a matter of days,
You spent more to retrieve
The unsustainable past
Than we asked you to invest
In a sustainable future.
If you get your grasp on your
Precious present
Again, don't lie to us again.
We need your new realization:
That when crisis hits,
What seemed impossible
And unthinkable
Becomes inevitable
And unavoidable
Overnight.
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They Told You It Was a Hoax
Why trust scientists? they asked.
It's no big deal. These things happen
All the time.
It's all hysteria, they said.
A liberal hoax.
You tried to tell them they had
Complacency bias and baseline syndrome,
But the fact that you were right meant they
Wouldn't listen.
Something as small as a virus, even smaller, a carbon atom,
Could change the world, you told them, forever.
They looked at you funny.
Sometimes by the time a danger is obvious,
It's too late to avoid it, you told them.
They shook their heads and
Kept watching
Fox News.
I'm sorry, Reality.
You tried.
-- Brian D. McLaren
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For Your Quarantine Sanity — a Link for 3/27/20
Yo Yo Ma shares #songsofcomfort:
More here:
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For Your Quarantine Sanity – a link for 3/25/20
This beautiful poem from Franciscan Br. Richard Hendrick: Lockdown
https://paceebene.org/blog/2020/3/17/lockdown-a-poem-for-troubling-times
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I Heard a Voice
Not sure who it was.
My intuition? The universe?
Mother earth? God?
(All of the above?)
This is more than it seems, it said.
Like an embryo in an egg, it said,
You will either hatch now
Or go rotten.
The message still echoes inside
These white walls.
I think it's for me, and also
For everyone.
-- Brian D. McLaren
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