A dead baby sparrow
lies limp on LA pavement
her body will eventualize
and nobody cares
why should I
You create your environment. Your environment does not create you.
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The angel doth protest too much. Like Coleridge’s aeolian harp, you sit there under a tree where some unknown master has misplaced you, and you insist the blind wind passing through you has no say in the meandering song emanating from your strings. Free will aside, the question is not answered in your post, only the means to answer it: because you can. I can care. But should I? Distinctly different issues. And don’t think this wasn’t aimed at you, LA, or the sparrow dying on your pavement.
You care. Because others seemingly don’t care causes you to question your instinct. This is fatal for humanity. You should care because you do care. And because you do you should act. Without action your caring is meaningless. The sparrow to me represents society’s decline and the lack of concern by the others represents their willingness to be ever more self indulgent. Who will stand up? Who’s problem is it? If we move according to the beat of society’s drum, we lose the instinctual ability to move according to the beat of our own heart.
And no, I didn’t think it was aimed at me. But it did speak to me.
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