Joe Strummer once said that the future is unwritten

Joe Strummer once said that the future is unwritten,

and while this idea gets me at times wondering

about the storytellers of the past

and how those amongst us still

busy themselves writing stories that

engage the evolved inhabitants of planet earth

in dystopian futures that look rather dim

from this side of the coin,

These futures portrayed all seem to be

ones that will be rather unpleasant

for more than just some.

And as we the readers of novels

and watchers of screens

keep waiting and wondering

pondering how the actual future will  

play itself out.

For if it is, as Joe Strummer once said

that the future is unwritten,

it does gets this reader of novels and watcher of screens

to wondering about the consequence of all of this dire storytelling

and about the portrayal of the possibilities of

our future days and if this

sort of dystopian storytelling is not just our human way

of predetermining our own twisted prophecies

one by one by one

each and every day.

For if the future is truly unwritten

then how will we free our present selves

from being held hostage

by the obviousness

of our modern ways

this Stockholm Syndrone

of our own cynical cycles

as we are held at gunpoint by both

ill informed and overeducated opinions,

how we are all accountable

regardless of which side of

the camera phone you stand,

and as we allow world and local leaders

to act as enablers and feeders

coercing the masses to gorge itself upon

this modern age dietary rage

of burning the calories of our compulsive need

to fill enraged,

this twisted way of laying claim

upon this world

instead of ever actually becoming

engaged.

For if Joe Strummer  

once said that the future is unwritten,

and now more than ever we the still living

must be increasingly aware

of becoming naive or just to damn

dumb enough not to know

that one day in that unwritten future

that we who have not been blindsided by hindsight

will be confronted once again

to look back in shame

about the present way

that so many of us are now

prone to act.