Forget not, Remember what?
When God said,
Go forth onto the earth and multiply
and, remember the bit about toil
not to mention,
as from every code or system,
whether shamanic, godly or sectarian
(apart from Rome and it’s ilk)
take care….
The message:
Man! Be trustees, caretakers, guardians!
Forget about that macho, Mars stuff.
So, Man, with the Wo-one from his rib
whether victim or complicit
did not either forget - or remember.
Nor did the key-words: care, trust, guard
seem to have registered...
too busy with his land-and-asset grabs,
his lethal territorial and sibling rivalries, revenges, lust to breed, his greed.
Even the more poetic ones
with their stories of Paradises
both lost and somehow to be regained,
warrior messengers to save the day;
while their vague notions of fairness
were postponed to otherworldly states.
Too busy with …. see above.
Little wonder The Source of it All
sent plagues and famines,
fire and brimstone on their heads.
Small surprise the Earth got sick
and the seas rose up to swallow them.
In some deep and ancient recess
of the group psyche lurk memories.
Forget not?
Remember what?