Narrowing Pathways

by michaelcahill

Mankind is not synergistic

Narrowing Pathways

I dream in color
it seems I was told
by someone old
that colors
splashed across the sky
and when I asked why
the meeting was called to order
and the elders walled every border
someone wrote words
and murder
became punctuation
superiority became
a matter of brute force
of course
a horse pulled a carriage
and a wheel spun round
and at some point
hunger became
the norm

light

*

light arrives from the past
to enlighten us
we in turn send light
hopefully into the future

Twas my eyes saw color—I gouged them out
I heard "race" … had my ears impaled
I knew in my mind black and white
and could describe them with
clear meaning to all
I cut my tongue
…but I am
just one
man

there was a first man
there will be a last
the rest of us
struggle
to fit
in

most cannot be tasked to bother

a select few
stand

alone

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