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Poetry by Margaret - this is from 25 pages of poetry in a book named "Jeremiah"...samples will change periodically, so come back to visit and enjoy different poems.

What must The Master think of us?

What can we hear? Only 10 octaves of sound.

What can we see? Only light between violet and red.

What can we smell? Only 30 odor-producing molecules.

What can we feel? A limited variation in the degrees of temperature,

Limited changes in texture, Limited changes in pressure, and so on.

Most cannot even give names to limited emotions we feel-

Or are they just chemical imbalances.

Why?

Our limited brain cannot process any more information.

Yet we consider ourselves masters of all we survey,

Just as we once considered our sun

The center of the universe

We even want to survey more than we can survey;

“Technology,” we call our tools.

With technology, we accumulate

More information than we can process

In less time than we can count,

Storing it in artificial memories

Because our memories are insufficient

The greed is too great.

And we consider ourselves masters of all we survey,

Yet our time is in infancy compared to the time of our molecules.

Daily we make and act on decisions

Without perceiving the results and consequences,

Using our limited memories and senses--

When we face pollution, starvation, disease, mutation, extinction, and other consequences,

Denying or ignoring links to our own decisions.

The guilt is too great.

Individually and cumulatively

We are unwilling (unable?) to change -

Instead we turn inward upon ourselves

Even as we turn outward on each other,

In prejudice and accusation,

Cursing, imposing limitations.

But we consider ourselves masters of all we survey,

Though our limitations and excesses

Cause global changes which our technology documents.

Will our end-time be a consequence?

What a perception of the true world in which we live! What must The Master think of us?

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