Collectively

Minna Canth monument, early advocate for women's empowerment.

Kuopio, Finland

Collectively

9/23/11

We are all in this together,

every individual adding to consciousness shift

hopefully on evolutionary road toward unity,

instead of small minded adversarial backbiting

that can happen while fearing loss

to one's cherished security and comforts

when promise of ever greater wealth

with higher living standards turn false,

where young adults completing college education

move in with struggling parents minus

prospect of job coming anytime soon

because lost confidence in system prevails,

and rightly so, due to repercussions

being acutely felt, seen, and experienced

as downside to mankind's capitalist experiment

fueling headlong pursuit of sacred cow

'progress', meaning something different to everyone

depending the predicament they're now in,

too many 'have-not's' without faith

resigning themselves to being pauper pawns

for mean spirited masters of finance

who think feudalism will be wonderful,

plus having money proves one's intelligence,

yet forgetting common sense wisdom that

management intimidation, slavery, greed, doesn't work,

only educated, informed world citizenry persevering

collectively toward sane goals can succeed.