swirling around the drain

a drop of water
in the sink
flowing along in a spinning wave

going down into the unknown
again


oceans flowing up into the sky
falling back to earth
season after season


part of the great ocean
a speck of chemicals
molecules
left over from clash of universes

and smashing meteorites
the chaotic Blast of the Big Bang

we defend our patch of the expanse with nuclear bombs


in the infinite solutions to the problems
inherent in birthing life one a bit of battered stone in space
we are failing even to manage our small patch of rock with any sense or honor



we look up for solutions
some see a God
some see Time Itself
some have a name for every star and angel in the sky
some send saviors out with sustenance for t poor
some send protesters to burials and proclaim the fallen soldiers are going to hell

some see only question marks
unanswerable oddities that make the astronomers finger painted solutions absurd

l spin round and round and round
dizzy all the time
stumbling around barely understood religions that are all too easy to dismiss

our fates are bound up in minute socio-psycho-anthro files
predicted and foreseen by prophets and hard-minded scientific seers

our self-destruction built into every civilization
one out of hundred of the children are autistic now
the rate shoots up in areas of high pollution
yet people want to blame the vaccines because they know something is responsible
what will the parents of the damaged do when they find out the polluters
now wantonly take the minds of the young?
will we finally take our place in the ancient struggle for life
that brought molecules together to create our hands and eyes and hearts and minds?

we would rather watch men go to the moon than look at our feet