we are the same as those who
came before.
yet our distance from our kind
is great.
do we not see that
we the living,
all of the living,
are a clan?
each with natures unique
but living and
this simple fact:
our being.
existence
is a bond so great
in this vast universe of light
and rock and gas.
we are livings’ keepers.
this is our moral; this is what we should do.
the illusion is the division
of us living.
and more.
human arrogance.
Sept 2012
West Pacific Review 