Lisa is hosting Prosery Monday in the dVerse Pub ~ her instructions: use this line "to hurt is to steal" from the song 'Mysterious Ways' ~ one of the tracks included on U2's Achtung Baby album!
Original Art ~ Jack Scott
To hurt is to steal. In today's world, dreams are being stolen. Innocence slips through cracks in drywall, as children sleep in blue-lit bedrooms.
It vanishes as lovers intertwine beneath soft sheets, believing they are safe. It's taken as a mother births her child, not knowing the world it enters is already wounded.
Dreams are hijacked during barbecue Sundays, cubicle Mondays, at altars and traffic stops, on playgrounds and in prisons, countries fighting against each other.
And still we dance. We sing. We pray. We hope. Is there an answer? Maybe, but it doesn't come cheap and it demands truth. Folks, are we losing what we do not know how to restore?
Helen, you ask tough questions at the end. I really wonder on both. We can't give up, but it is very tough to know what to actually do to make it stop :(
ReplyDeleteVery thought-provoking, Helen.
ReplyDeleteI fear many dreams are being stolen in the world today. I hope that dreams can be restored. A thought provoking closing question.
ReplyDeleteI liked this, something to think about
ReplyDeleteSad and yet hopeful! Well done, Helen.
ReplyDeleteI feel every word of this, Helen. I am sinking under the weight of our current reality.
ReplyDeleteI can read so much between the lines here, and feel that I know the undercurrent you're referencing. It's so clever. And yes, what are we losing? The innocence slipping out of those blue-lit bedrooms (blue-lit because of device screens?) seeps through those cracks, never to return?
ReplyDeleteWonderful!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, as we grow older we lose our innocence,
some of us try to hold onto something in a world that is not for them...but they try...
You’ve hit the nail on the head in the opening paragraph, Helen, and I worry for my grandchildren; they are still so young, but my daughter is already struggling with peer influence on the seven-year-old to visit websites she doesn’t trust. I fear for his innocence slipping ‘through cracks in the drywall’. Yes, our world is wounded, and I’m not sure how we can restore it.
ReplyDeleteThat last sentence was superb philosophical irony. Cubicle Mondays the scariest thought...hard to say, to answer — dreams create everything. No statue of Liberty or Golden Gate could be created without dreams. Certainly difficult question to answer. I wondered if "It" in para 2 should also be They? We...the world are opposed with forces that want to crush dreams. Our mistake was to allow our penchant for authoritarians lull us into laziness. When we cannot dream it is our fault too. Maybe. Hard question.
ReplyDeleteI think we have taken things for granted for way too long, and now we are loosing everything gained, but as long as we can keep from depression I still think we can find a way forward getting us back on track.
ReplyDeleteHold on to hope. Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteThis hit home - I've been musing over that very loss of innocence for my grandies and others, but also for all of us really as we deal with the awful mess of the world as well.
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