This is a time of collective personal growth
the growth of this deeply personal collective that we call
ourselves
or so I hope that this Earth and we of this Earth
learn to protect it
ourselves.
This is a time when human connection grows
in the irony of these times in which we cannot
connect with our hands but must
with our hearts
to defeat what is invisible.
Arms cannot win this war
but rather our human strength
or else, we are not the humans
we thought ourselves to be.
And if the invisible is ourselves?
We were invincible.
We defeated the Neanderthals
overwhelming them with our social prowess;
we defeated the animals
breaking their backs and putting them in cages;
we defeated the earth, the trees, the oceans
tainting their purity with our manufacture.
We defeated God
suffocating Him with the laws of science.
And now, we must defeat ourselves
to emerge our true selves,
to break the invisible shackles
that now, finally, we feel dig in and reveal
what we are.
Originally published at http://megumismusings.wordpress.com on April 5, 2020.
