It is an old, old nursery rhyme, one that most kids have sung. Perhaps it should have new lyrics written for it, something that is relevant to the year 2009. How about:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,
You must wonder what we are.
Up above our world so high,
What happens here must make you cry.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,
Could I come to where you are?
On the subject of nursery rhymes,
Old mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
to fetch poor Rover a bone
When she bent over Rover came over
And found he had a bone of his own.
I didn’t learn that one in nursery school David,not that it wasn’t in vogue in kindy’s where I come from.
But the stars are not very bright are they? maybe you should have said the lights are going out all over Europe, no wrong again maybe the world. I guess a lot of people at the moment must feel like their stars are fading as the days move forward into the financial mess that is gathering a pace.I was talking to my old mum the other night, she was telling me about the blitz of WW2 from a personal account, not a conspiracy theory by the way.
She tells me in the early part of Hitlers revenge on their Anglo Saxon cousins, they would all run for the air raid shelters, but as the war dragged on, her family was just fed up with the whole thing, and when the air raid sirens went off, they just stayed in bed, and hoped for the best.
I don’t know why I told you that, but it explains the human condition to me.Apart from a few of us, people are prepared to let the world just disintegrate under our feet.
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The human condition? It’s hard to feel sorry for humans, Phill, because most of the problems they have they bring upon themselves.
You know what? One of the commenters on my blog left a comment recently which ended thus: “I surf around blogs and laugh my ass off at the futility and naivety.”
Here we are, doing our best to make a difference and trying to improve things a bit in this chaotic world, and here are these lowlife who spend their time undermining serious blog authors and baiting serious commenters or trying to make their craziness seem like something profound!
Then there are pedestrian authors who troll other blogs looking for inspiration because they are bereft of it, that and talent, etc. They also look for what they can poach. They are bludgers, parasites, a waste of space.
Give me a break!
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that’s funny david, i was just out the other night looking at the stars and that very poem came to me, but in it’s orignal form. and then two shooting stars fell within the space of one minute. it was really beautiful, but i felt so sad for the earth………………
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David G Reply:
February 24th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
It’s great to get such a nice, constructive comment, Coco! I feel sad for the earth too but, let’s face it, it’s we humans who spoil it (present company excepted of course) both for ourselves and others.
If we were really intelligent, we’d change our ways.
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