Witness To History

Eventful, biased accounts humankind
calls history is a convention of classical
informed memory becoming collective;
recalling and inventing what scholars,
national archivists and state politicians
assemble, record, parse, deny and
synthesize in a frail retrospective
of human nature meeting each
another and dealing with events that
ensue, unavoidably, disastrously.

History concerns itself largely
with the flagrant excesses of the
nature of those being surveyed at a
distance of time and altered social
convention. The absolutes of human
knowledge of the constituents of
inhumanity, vanity, superiority,
and the penchant to belittle and
destroy each other, played, replayed
to an ever-receptive audience.

The penchant and tendency of
people to wreak upon one another
pain and misery deliberately achieved
to satisfy a deeply entrenched loathing
for the other can only reflect a nature
gone amock, become deranged, besotted
with self-destruction. Toward which
purpose, episodic upheavals of warfare
lead to an end, never fully yet committed.

The final abyss leading us to an
inevitable denouement is yet to be
realized. Accepted norms of mutually
targeted brutality leaves in the wake of
their atrocities the maimed and the
shocked; fearful, dreading, yet meeting
new horizons. Ultimately our urge to
destroy will bring to reality the final
frontier of the nuclear winter and
obliteration to make war obsolete.