HUMANITY’S CALAMITY

It was the last gasps of the 2 billion animal individuals that die every day to feed us,
A holocaust not noted by voracious humanity.
It was the screams of children, beaten and abused by their caregivers.
It was the moans of those diseased from air polluted by our industriousness,
and water choked with chemicals, feces and urine of industrial farming.
It was the cries of children dying overseas for lack of food and medicine because of our
shameful embargoes and their own leaders who prefer to buy weapons before
milk.
It was the wails in the countries that kill their own people, torture their own people, then get bombed by us to teach them to be good to one another.
Even the relative minutiae depresses me:
sidewalks cannot accommodate wheelchairs,
and are littered with refuse,
and garbage cans and cars block pedestrian use
and
oh, we think we’re hot, hotter than this hell that begot and holds us.
Are we not the ones around which the sun revolves?
Galileo, Copernicus notwithstanding
Yet, too, are we not all medieval Catholics at heart, the lot of us
still willing to put a stake through the heart of the unknown enemy,
put a steak on the grill or
burn a witch at the stake
one mistake after another?
It was the war.
He was the pilot.
They were the bombed.
Pronouns hung in the balance.
When it came from afar, from the air, everything changed.
O, they hurt no more.
O, they hurt worse.
Someone was happy. Someone was sand.
Favors and flames were granted.
As earth turns and burns, tumbling inside God’s palm, learning to share.
6 billion and counting, but only 2 sexes here,
that have to come to, two
gether gather
to continue
as we only go forwards towards forever together.
As I, a she, did not want anyone over me
like an earth devoid of
sky to hold my mater in and shield me from the cold of space;
he was in turn, minus matter, free to float, call him ether
jealous of my mass, my solidity, fearful of that which I was.
I held him down he said, while he poured and thundered on me.
An evolution, in revolution from mater to ether, ether to matter,
for both or either to matter.