Young fighters
erstwhile warriors
prepared to explode
their body parts into
organic confetti
taking hundreds with them
to death’s crematorium
for glory
for god
for fruitless revenge
for retribution
for nonsensical beliefs.
Colonialists
with daydreams of empire
and untold fortunes
dancing in their heads,
strap weapons of destruction
to their merciless portfolios
of greed,
politics like a game of marbles
played with abandon
upon our earthly globe,
ignoring the ultimate reality
of victorious death,
we depart with nothing
no matter how filled our coffers,
regardless of all the possible satisfactions of
physical delights,
we depart from the living
much like when first expelled from
mother’s luxuriant womb
with nothing except
what is required to fill our lungs
with the very first breath and
bodies to sustain us.
Crazy Apes
have filled their precious brains
with ideas of endless and relentless
prosperity,
that if fulfilled
with come to naught,
yet the dance continues
to the incessant beat
within the fantastic dream of
having it all,
yet the idea of cheating death
in some extraordinary journey that
will carry us beyond the finality of the grave
to an eternity where all the physical laws
fall away like some annoying and burdensome baggage,
our airy souls can then surpass the very
essence of time and space.
Crazy Apes
sustain themselves
upon a bedrock of twisted concepts,
beliefs exquisitely drawn from
erroneous conclusions,
that lead to nowhere and
suggest a world that
can no longer contain them.
Crazy Apes
nearly eight billion strong,
sucking great gobs of matter
from the earth
without benevolence or
sensible feelings of dread,
expelling poisons carelssly into
precious air,
draining the oceans dry of
precious life,
sacrificing exquisite beauty of wild
transformative earth
with mountains of trash,
living on the home planet
as if it was not responsible for
our continued existence.
Crazy Apes
with a world deperately in need of mending
problems mounting,
disaster looming,
doom approaching,
more content to annhilate
each other
over trivial concerns
than join together to
choose harmony instead
when harmony is so critically needed.
Crazy Apes
