Countdown to the Future
It seems to be a global thing
ticking off the hours, minutes and days
towards an event, a numerical landmark,
a signal for change.
Cultures gear up in a frenzy
of sponsored mediafests,
and the single human alone
adrift on the seas of shifting social trends,
strains to a glimpse
of a far off horizon,
where the parts of history
fall into place
with a promise of ordinary certainty
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