Into the storm we run again,
the proverbial flock of lemmings,
just one quantum step from the edge,
one second from hitting the water with a plop.
With the imprudence of children
we run ahead without a plan,
models of remote-controlled ignorance,
victims of oversight and custom
we are left to beat the odds.

Brazenly we face obvious disaster,
ignoring all transparent warnings.
We refrain from proper precautions,
ravelling things further with our discursive patterns.
Our common sense is tempered by arrogance
and we feel so sanguine about our ability
to weather anything that bars our way,
we callously dismiss the fact
that those storms were created by us.

 

©november child
in response to:
Plop

Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle Special Addition Contranym “September 5th, 2016”
weather/refrain/temper/left/discursive/sanguine/transparent/custom/oversight/model/ravel/quantum
photo credit: Stephen Wolfe via flickr