Homo Sapiens?

From a crevice
in the
crannied wall
 
springs a
blossom sweet
and tall
 
*
 
The mint
of nature
ever fresh
 
renews
in healing
gravity
 
excesses
of mortal
flesh
 
*
 
As we tug
tussle
and vie
 
as we do
and doing
die
 
she never
asks us
why
 
being far
far
too shy
 
*
 
Like a nurse
on the
bloody field
 
but heaves
a doleful
sigh
 
bearing
sustenance
to all
 
as we
fight flail
and fall
 
whisp’ring
so so
tremulously
 
What fools
these mortals
be!
 
*
 
Lets fall
a vapid
tear
 
waiting
ever
patiently
 
for fogs
of ignorance
to clear
 
*
 
Even though
she must
know
 
since far
away
and long
ago
 
’twas ever
the way with
us
 
and will
ever
remain so
 
for that
is who we
are
 
but angry
chimps
at war
 

[© R.Kanth 2023]

 
Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).