Persecution And Sufffering

Will come to us all as individuals
from around the globe and across the earth
as life breathes through us. The persecutiions
that seem the worst disguise themselves
until they are recognised being calibrated
through calendars, and set to time limits,
throuhg which they burn out, in real time.
Until real time becomes a history by which,
if we can recall it accurately, we may measure
some of the possible suffering and reward to come. 

Some suffer knowing their suffering is finite
though they can't know how it will end
or what their reward for enduring it will be.

Other people suffer and project that their suffering
will be the sole cause of the end of the world
something that they tell one and all is imminent.

I understand suffering and privatiion well enough.
I also appreciate that it can seem disporportionate
but I simply don't 'get' how the suffering of anyone
alive now, or in recent or modern times, can say
that their suffering is that central to the future
of all time and space throughout the universe,
such that they should command the collective attention
of the billions alive of that apex species: Homo Sapiens.

That self absorbed path leads one way only: towards insanity.