Uncertainties

By skinner_jennifer

Thu, 24 Oct 2019
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Dear diary...

I feel this disharmony

blemishing our world,

disfiguring the innocent

it churns in my stomach,

 

young should perceive future

as releasing unsettling pressures

not a bugbear of uncertainties,

garbled ramblings that lead nowhere.

 

So much freedom taken from society,

left with no one trusting each other...

trouble is we've come too far to turn

back, though they say it's not too late,

 

we're being brainwashed by those in charge,

drip fed toxic information that makes us sad,

to the average person on street! Who to believe?

I have no idea at how much cost these uncertainties.

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Diary
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Comments

Submitted by onemorething on

I'm having such a bad day hence my maudlin offering (which has reminded me of the perils of impulsive posting on the internet), however, it has made me smile that you have posted a much more succinct poem about uncertainty which cleverly leaves a little hope mixed with its sadness which is the better kind of sadness. :)

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi there onemorething,

your poem was how you felt at the time and there's nothing wrong with that. I've taken off the bit about being inspired by your poem, as I didn't feel it was right to take away from how you were feeling.

Hope you don't mind.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Oh yes that's fine, of course I don't mind. I didn't feel that you had taken away from my feelings though btw. Actually quite cathartic to let it out and for someone else to have listened. Shows your thoughtfulness. :)

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Jenny

Very well said, and so say all of us, but you put it much better than we could.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hello Jean,

this was just me thinking out loud...having a quick rant.

I'm glad you could understand where I'm coming from. I think of my partners grandchildren and worry what kind of a world they will have. I know most young people are resilient and will adapt, but at what cost? Is what worries me.

Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Kurt Rellians on

I like your piece/ poem and the concerns you express so well for the next generations. It really does express the heart of our social problems of the present and the future.

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Thankyou Kurt for your understanding response to this piece of writing. Much apppreciated.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Oh Jenny I  feel like this too! Children now seem more concerned of if they will even survive, not about the dreams of having a good life, a job they enjoy and a family. So many of those in my son's year at school are on crack, I guess because reality is bad and won't get better no matter what they do. There's this aweful feeling of doom, I worry this is how everyone felt before the first world war.

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hello Di,

what you are telling me is so much like the schools around where I live, young people drug pushing and teenagers living with no hope and so becoming addicted. My partner's grand daugher who is twenty two said she won't be getting married, or having any children, she doesn't want to bring them into such an unsure world and I don't blame her.

It's all very scary to even contemplate, I just live in hope of those in charge getting their act together, so we can live in hope of a brighter future, which is all I suppose we can do.

Thank you for your thoughts Di.

Jenny.