~The Road Less Taken~

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

as i promised.

Only Humans

An inch from this large sphere of twine,
Cut to size and magnified –
A red dwarf which brightly shines
Its centre full of raging pride –
A grand vision and noble mission
For lowly cells with shrill death knells.

We were never meant to be what we are –

A footnote in the annals of history,
Below Earth and air and fire and ice –
An afterthought to a beautiful story
When greedy gamblers roll their dice –
A facial mole, an ugly black hole
And many stakes for a slimy snake.

We let ourselves make us happen –

A corrupt “innocent” with tinted glasses,
Worse than meteors and living earth –
A bomb long blown as time slowly passes
Numbing us to our scourge and dearth –
The real deal and the fate we have sealed
Of a noble age, killed by hurt and rage.

But at our end, we must know who we are –

A change between good and better,
A middle with no beginning or end –
A tiny period in a word of many letters,
A name not borrowed and never to lend.
We arrived as zeroes and leave as heroes,
But our zeal is all surreal.

We’re humans – only humans.

We were never meant to be who we are –
We let ourselves make us happen.
But at our end, we must know who we are –
We’re humans – only humans.

I stopped to rest at 11:58 PM

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...