Let The Past Remain The Past

Much as I enjoy studying history
I have no interest in any past life
of my own, some scene
where I might have had a greater effect
than I can know now
on any lives led back then.

Let each life find it's own trouble,
it's own causes for complaint,
and it's own joys too.

And when the joy
outweighs the misery
then that is a small bonus
we can enjoy which we know
might happen in future.

I am A Unique Product Of The First World,

which makes many unique products,
some of which are better made than others.
That world also says it treats every human being as unique.
Though it doesn't. I am privileged beyond belief.
The choices I have in own right are more
than all my fore-bearers combined.
Of all I have inherited what I value most
is the choice to not have to breed on their behalf.
For fear of shame if I don't.
Nor do I have to own things outright, to use them.
If I am to be the end of everything they ever thought
bought, and fought over, then let their hopes be restful.