We are we are

How will they judge our century? our generation?
Will they cry at all we took for granted?
Will they laugh at all we valued above the rest?
Will they shake their heads at our mistakes?
Or simply repeat our most religious sentiment:

'that's just the way it is'

I hope they do
I hope they are shocked by our inhumanity
appaled by our fascination with destruction
disgusted by our selfish pride
pity our self-induced stupour

Progress will emerge
not from our reverence for our 'forefathers'
or our kneeling at the pews

not from our mythical creations of battles
and obsession with sophisticated ways to hate

The more they can see us for the brutes we are
the more hope I have in those that will come after
that they may say
We can do much, much better
we are, much, much better