The recording of culture is history; <br />but our culture is more than that. <br />It's the world of human action, <br />and the myths we make of the fact. <br /> <br />The recording of history is culture, <br />but our history is more than that. <br />It informs a hidden agenda. <br />Unconscious of motive we act. <br /> <br />It's the history of now, the history of now. <br />It's only the present that exists as endowed. <br />It's the history of now. The moment - KAPOW! <br />That knocks you right over and muddies your brow. <br /> <br />Through the prism of language, we know what we know. <br />We carry our baggage and stories of woe. <br />Victor and vanquished pride cannot budge, <br />the dead weight of hatred and ancestral grudge. <br /> <br />We fight our good fights with our hand on our heart; <br />the music is swelling as loved ones depart. <br />As sheep to the slaughter, the script cannot chart, <br />a course more ignoble: the propagandist's art. <br /> <br />The recording of history is culture, <br />but our culture is more than that. <br />More than the great individuals, <br />the scholars so love in their tracts. <br /> <br />The recording of culture is history; <br />but our history is more than that. <br />Not simple dates or statistics, <br />the full horror and gore still attracts. <br /> <br />It's the history of now, the history of now. <br />A strange contradiction that makes sense somehow. <br />It's the history of now, a mystery and shroud. <br />The past and the future: best fiction allowed.<br /><br />David SmithWhite<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-history-of-now/
