“People
seem ugly”
(Paraphrased
with thanks to The Doors)
People
are befuddling,
people are strange.
people are strange.
Known
quantity or stranger:
it is impossible to know what they think or to explain how they act.
it is impossible to know what they think or to explain how they act.
Is
humanity beyond research, beyond insight,
beyond reason?
Have
we lost the ability to see beyond our ingrained,
myopic opinions?
Has
humankind determined its own extinction by choosing to believe,
and to repeat obvious nonsense on a closed loop?
and to repeat obvious nonsense on a closed loop?
Talking
into an echo or to the reflection in a mirror achieves nothing going forward.
Blinders
on our eyes, fingers in our ears, and venom from our lips keep us in dizzying
spin.
Eventually,
unless we take better care we will all get
thrown from the merry go ‘round.
Ronda
R. Scott-Marak
©
10 May 2017