[colinbaker62]

Some wonder
what the future
will do
-to us-

Some wonder
what we
can do
-to the future-

Interesting title, took me several reads before it really grabbed me. And I like it, extremely simple but it seems to say a lot.

[xtremelady]

Short and sweet! Can't help feeling that I want more, almost as if has an unfinished quality about it. - like 2 interconnecting statements - which could be expanded on. {perhaps?}Regardless, defiantly a thought provoking piece.

[colinbaker62]

Hello you kind people.

If I may briefly explain the thinking behind this particular piece of mine, it might help a little. The first stanza is intended to convey, albeit in a highly compressed form, the fatalist conception of the world as I would term it. This suggested fatalist view adopts the attitude of 'whatever happens, happens'. All religious thinking for example would belong in this category.

The second stanza,however, suggests one possible alternative, namely that of humans actually making their own future in a conscious, and co-operative manner, free from all superstitious and mystical thinking. The title itself, is intended to sum up this suggested contradiction. Either we turn our backs on the world (and hope for the best, perhaps putting our trust in some or other transcendental being) or else we put our metaphorical backs into the task of consciously transforming our planet and for the good of all, as opposed to a privileged minority.



Colin

that's a wonderufl explanation. I would fit in with that second stanza, never been a believer in fate, else there's not much point.

[colinbaker62]

Hi again Duncan and many thanks..


Colin