341: In a Dying World

Would you raze

a castle to the grounds

and blame the owner?

Would you watch

a starving beggar

and blame them

for their own poverty?

Would you hear

the cries of children,

still unborn,

and blame the mothers

who didn't want them?

Humanity

isn't inherently evil. Golding

wrote a satire. People

aren't corrupted.

We're products of the culture

that has bred us,

and if the tree yields bad apples

the tree itself

must be rotting at its roots.

So tear it up. Expose

the cracks and breaks

and hidden bacteria.

Show us

where the blame lies —

not with the owner,

the beggar,

the mother.

Show us.

Who burns? Who reduces

the world to poverty?

Who makes children

in a dying world?

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Written by: Katrine Hjulstad

Instagram: @katrinehjulstad

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