Humanity

A hungry wolf
with good table
manners and
a bottomless
stomach.

A species
suspended
in the childhood
of awakening.

A ray of sunlight
on the verge
of a nervous
breakdown.

Some very
good people
with some very
bad leaders.

An assembly
line of cells
and genes.

The universe
learning to
love itself.

A teenage God
having a bad
mushroom trip.

A rescue dog
afraid of
its own
shadow.

Siblings
who fight
because
it’s a family
tradition.

Our own
worst enemy.

Suicide
in the form
of genocide.

An innocent
woman burned
at the stake
for witchcraft.

The right
hand blaming
the left hand
for the body’s
genetic pain.

Consciousness
disguised as
matter.

A crying baby
with delusions
of grandeur
and ambitions
of world
domination.

An eagle
with a broken
wing.

The heart
under attack
by the mind.

Oneness
broken into
duality.

A homeless
man vomiting
at the foot of
a billionaire.

The nauseous
womb of our
technological
future.

An energy
whose borders
are illusory.

An advanced
education for
brave souls.

A baby fawn
walking across
a busy highway.

A school play
where some
of the actors
take their roles
a little too
seriously.

Both Judas
and Christ.

Baby Krishna
and Death,
destroyer
of worlds.

A caravan
of blind explorers
arguing over
a map they
cannot see.

Awareness
lost inside
of thought.

A flickering
candle inside
a dark room.

The scream
of a poet
into the
void.

The distant
ancestor of
a noble tribe
whose history
has been
forgotten.

A group
of refugees
who gave up
their magic
in exchange
for paper
money.

An ape
who saw
too much.

Many vibrant
and distinct shades
of the same great
rainbow.

A jazz band
with seven billion
solos playing
at the same time.

The vision
of a genius
dulled by
medication.

The rerun
of an old
television show
that we watch
again and again
because we
can never
quite learn
the lesson.

The sickness
and the cure.

The eternal debate
between the
mathematician
and the artist.

A fuzzy
channel
of cosmic
inspiration.

A fallen angel
who must repay
her debt before
returning home.

The multi-faced
servant of
a single truth
bowing in many
different
directions.

A collection of
broken pieces
trying to come
back together.

The thing
standing between
the light and
the shadow.

A comedy
that looks
like a tragedy
until the very
end.