Open Secret?

*
 
 
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)