Now

There was a point in time when we cared,
long before we were turned bent with apathy.
There was this place where
things mattered, before they induced
this clogged indifference.
Interludes occur infrequently, and they
are usually peppered with lust or anger, anyway.
Anyway, we don't know what
we're saving ourselves for,
or what we're saving them from. 
We're safe and clean, that's all we know
because we live by their slogan:
"I am told to preserve myself
I am told to prevent myself."
We don't know what to do
with the people we have become.
We don't know how to be
the people we were supposed to become.
We are not good and we are not evil,
but nothing ever is now.
We are just ok and we are bad,
like everything else now.
Nothing is pure;
Nothing is untouched.
Where can we evolve, and
How can we deconstruct
now that we have given up?