What is there left when hope is gone?

How do we go on?

When knowledge enlightens,

The horror is revealed.

Then one must live with the sins of the rest. 

And somehow try to sleep.

Fellowship is what we have.

Love is left when hope is gone.

Togetherness.

We don’t need

All the things 

They tell us we need

to live fulfilled lives.

Our ancestors lived 

Fulfilled lives

for hundreds of thousands of years.

Then we ran out of game to hunt.

Now they force us to exist

Not in Communities,

But in macro societies gathered together for the benefit of those who make the rules—

And what sold those early adherents of civilization on this concept?

Certainly not inequality—not Consumerism.

No one prefers a life of oppression to even death.

In fact, everyone would have demanded personal autonomy and of course

The men who thought up civilization, would be forced to acquiesce.
So why in the world do any of us accept the lives imposed upon us

From those who tell us they are more capable of rule 

Than are we?