Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Peer


They’re looking, I know they are. They always do.


No matter the place, time, setting, or circumstance, they are continually there, peering, judging, evaluating, and ultimately, scrutinizing. Their faces are blank lifeless forms of plastic big box specials there to satisfy their own perverse inclinations; their futile wants, needs and desires they have been molded to have. Their intoxicated eyes, piercing ribs, and boneless backs are enough to cause death to the mightiest of soles; the one’s that can withstand years of insistent punishment and torment. Everything about them seems so factitious; a construed array of selected elements from every manufactured snapshot imaginable.

Nevertheless, they move on. Like a well commanded force trudging its way over a hill, they remain in sync, en masse, as one. They conjointly sway to the roles in the streets, halting to a stop and then proceeding forward in a faultless fashion.

Life seems so easy for them- hassle-free- consistently maximizing their elitist positions in the societal structures of life. And as always, they peer. They stare into the eyes of those who have not yet confined to their superficial way of life. Endlessly, they look down, down on those whom they see as primitive jackanapes unprepared for their virtuous way of life. They peer.

Unfortunately for all of society, they grow. Incessantly, we have allowed their exponential expansion to become a perfunctory aspect of life- a seeming impertinent fact in the eyes of all.

But I warn: this is what they want, this is their ultimate goal. We have been defeated, they are victorious.

They peer on.