Beyond Our Best

A power failure doesn’t mean the end of the World 

you’d say, not an event like an unforeseen nuclear 

incident - one in which all infrastructure existing is 

irrevocably blown to bits, life immediately ceasing; 

& so does the similarity, for God’s sake the power 

has failed, why are we bewailing civilisations end - 

what’s missing is TV, and the insufferable internet, 

which we’d easily trade for a carton of cold beer 

But - maybe that is as far as we have progressed; 

taking a power failure as the expression of where 

we’re best seen for whom and what we are preys 

upon where we came from; we used to be able to 

cope with such deprivation, & expected it more or 

less, because it accurately tested who we were 

And that definitely says we're beyond our best

© 27 October 2015, I. D. Carswell