I thought this time would count to make things better in our world. All I see is that it has not. All I see is that the human culture that has brought us to this place has eaten away our capacity to question, to accept risk, to accept enoughness. All I se

I thought
this time would count to make things better in our world.

All I see
is that it has not.

All I see
is that the human culture that has brought us to this place has eaten away our capacity to question, to accept risk, to accept enoughness.

All I see
is a human culture that feels it has the right to eat the world in order to generate its own short term comfort.

All I see
is a human culture that has no respect for other species.

All I see
is the only species that thinks it is not part of nature: humans.

All I see
is a human culture that has no capacity to understand death, and in doing so has little capacity to understand that the depth of life matters over its length.

All I see
is a human culture that lives on the delusion of hope while pushing aside the power of grief.

All I see
is a human culture hell-bent on returning to 'the way it was' - a worse 'normal' than before.

I thought
this pause would count.

I thought
this pause would give pause.

I thought
this pause would be the making of us.

I thought
but I was wrong.

Please prove me wrong.