Night-runner

There, night-runner
We both pound against the ground
Though your face covered in a shroud
Blackness envelops your presence
Still, I sense the ounces of your essence
The moment passes without question

Who night-runner
Ceases to exist along the path
There is no feeling of wrath
Only the whip of the wind now
The dicates of the body allow
The moments fail to happen

Again, night-runner
The eyes sink to the floor
No requests for more
The loop is our friend
We follow to its end
The moment passes without question

Which night-runner
Each stuck in its place
Never look at a face
The air provides us silence
The world again makes sense
All moments pass, no notice

Hello night-runner
Your world is shattered
Questions leave you tattered
Mine is of wonder
If this be a blunder
The moment passes with new direction

No more night-runner
Bodies continue to pass
The silence breaks like glass
Others emerge from the shadow
Yet the blackness turned callow
The moment fades into our beaten paths



Western history books tell of momentous eras in human history. The so-called Dark Ages (Europe) were a time of little scientific advancement and small-minded arts.

Yet the great eras carry names such as the Golden Age (Greece), the Renaissance (Italy), and the Enlightenment (France). These were times of giant leaps in scientific advancement and history-making arts. It’s little wonder these titles bear a striking opposition to the Dark Ages.

Out of the Enlightenment came names such of Locke and Rousseau. Their writing, and many others in Europe played an enormous role in shaping the thoughts and lasting documents to emerge in the American Revolution.

John Locke’s motto – simply put – was life, liberty, and property. Farmers, townsfolk, indentured servants, and slaves fought the Revolutionary War. However, men like Franklin, Adams, Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson constructed the government these soldiers fought to form.

These American thinkers wrote a government that preached fair representation, equal rights, and balance of power. Yet they also set up an electoral college that cast the actual ballots for the new country’s president. Thomas Jefferson took Locke’s motto and replaced the word property with pursuit of happiness.

These deep thinkers and governors of the young American citizens had the time to debate life’s great questions because they had the time. The power-holders in this time period and all recorded Western history previously had the spare time for activities such as writing meaningful correspondence, constitutions, and poems because they were fortunate enough to own land.

Property has been the ultimate power throughout Western history – even in the Dark Ages, especially in the Dark Ages. Locke wrote philosophy. Jefferson wrote a Declaration of Independence that had direct application to a new government. He had a responsibility to realistic. The new United States of America’s wealthy would be so under the same conditions as the rest of the world’s wealthy regardless of what any document said. So out with property as a basic human right in the U.S. of A.

The ironic thing is, though, that the greatest strides in human rights made in history were done with John Hancock’s signing of Jefferson’s declaration despite its apparent “Let them eat cake,” laissez faire undertones.

These revered American founding fathers put together the best government this world has seen to date because others worked their land, cooked and served their food, ran their trades, and zillion other tasks all other independent citizens are required to take care of for themselves in order to make a living and support a family. Let’s not forget the majority of these workers on their land were slaves.

Most of our founding fathers had their land because the British government granted it to them. They generally did not have to pour out their sweat, blood, and tears to earn the money to purchase the land. So as they grew older, they used their vast spare time to study, write and discuss the greater thoughts of life and government.

Men and women of wealth earn themselves the time to do these things today, but scholars and academics also indulge in these endeavors regularly. And the former spend a great amount of their lives thinking about these matters. Yet the wealthy have the power. And so they hire the scholars and academics to advise them – sometimes. Sometimes they employ fellow colleagues of power whom have the hands-on experience. The system of thought today does not meld time, power, and intelligence into singular people anywhere near the scope of the individual founding fathers.