Maybe, if you haven’t noticed,
all we as a planet
are merging out of
the value of keeping up with
the Joneses, a material culture
of speed, of separateness
of a shallow consciousness.
Those are problematic values
of an archaic past of polluted failures.
We are now valuing the planet
our relationship with nature
workability, sustainability,
the skills of living together,
of creating a livable future,
of finding beauty in our lives.
And that past, that “normal”
is unfortunately
or fortunately
dead and gone.