BEAUTY

I’ve seen all and yet I’ve seen nothing,

Experienced all and yet experienced nothing.

This journey that seems without end.

We are but puppets in the very lives we commandeer

We are but streams coursing through the rocks.

     Our positions are engineered at every turn we take.

Blame us for where we end up.

As long as you reserve your disdain for the rocks.

See us transparent and sparkly as we avoid those rocks in every turn.

Do not blame us when we get to the sea and our depths become unfathomable.

You are naive for wanting us to stay as we are forever,

Transparent through and through.

And yet even the sea has its beauty

Having  seen it at sunset, am I convinced.

There is beauty in transparency albeit shallow.

But beauty found within depths,

Through every plunge and every dive

Beauty indeed! I say.

HUMANITY

We are our own competition.

Our history is never gone, always before us.

Our present constantly faced with shaming the achievements of our past.

Our futures with the hopeful resignation of ‘we can do better’.

Our history, our now, our hope.

We are what the ape can never aspire to, no matter how evolved.

We are humanity.

We are cautious and daring

We are foolish and wise

We are a people worthy of envy

 A  masterpiece of creation

We survive.

We thrive.

Hope, our emblem,

Our brightest gift.

We are humanity!

CONSCIENCE

My little man, lodged deep inside me

With just the possibility of his rebuke,

My feet are kept on the straight and narrow.

The sighs of relief he expels are like music to my soul.

My conscience and I bonded for life.

Him I never wanted but always needed.

Him I will prob’ly abandon with the slightest provocation.

A choice I never want to be given.

My conscience is a necessary evil.

My conscience and I, may we never part.

The world is a little bit safer with him in play.

My conscience is the isle of my soul.