Open Secret?
We are, as humans, above all things, myth-making animals.
Preface
In a law
governed
universe
Instincts
are our
Inner Law(s)
*
To kill is
Primal
Instinct
it is our
Man-ifest
Destiny
there is
no
contramanding
this
Darwinian
Entropy
*
Animals
affecting
airs
how
deluded
can we be?
*
Civilisation
mongering
apes?
what
mordant
irony!
*
Instincts
drive our
species
like dogs
cats
and swine
though
in high
pretension
we think
ourselves
divine
*
Whence the
Blight
continues
despite
remorse
and repine
*
That’s
the Alpha
and
Omega
of our
Dismal Human
Fate
It is time
facts
were bespoken?
I swear
it’s not
too late!
Postface
I can take a horse
to water
but can’t make
it water-ski
I can proffer
Argument
but can I make
you see?
I entreat you
yet
again:
Can I
make
you see?
N.B. In plain prose , as a species, we are (leaving at least half the human race aside this judgment) no better than Chimps.
Indeed far, far worse – armed with lasers, computers, and nuclear weapons.
Nature dealt our species a rough hand: we might wish we were Bonobos, instead.
Now ,consider: given where we’re at right now – do we really have a bright, benign, future?
Do we?
Go on: make up another myth.
Political, religious , it doesn’t matter.
I’m ready.
[© R.Kanth 2023]
Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (Novel) , A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse)
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