You who could not even fly

       
of you, 

who could not even fly
the physics alone 
astounds me
an experiment 
has wildly exceeded 
its normal boundaries
having properties 
like water
contradictory, 
no less so
where the artist 
meets the scientist 
cave paintings 
...in my mind
common sense 
or not
somewhere 
from 
a distant
 
past 

we 
learned 
what 
not to 
eat,

where 
food was 

even, 

where 
to find food

where food 
was not known to be 

and how not 
to be killed or eaten 

when and where
we were most 

...likely to be found

it was not 
purely by accident

or should it be said...

we learned of this...

and could start 

to foresee 
and influence  

or learn 
to cope with things 
we had begun 

to see occur in cycles

days and nights, 

the moon the tides 
the seasons, 

birth and death 
the natural characteristics 

of this experience 
we call life...
 
and what goes on
within it 

and without it

what about it

have you 
studied enough history

to 
understand 

the nature of man;
amidst 
the mystery
to 
accentuate the positives
and to 
attenuate the negatives

we who learn 

a little at a time...

no 
wonder, 

why 

we 
live 
so 
long

it takes 
more 
than 
a 
little time 
to 
learn 
how to accept
the 
factual 
and practical 
reality

we 
screw up 
...a lot

some 

seem more 
persistent than others

endowed 
with a great abundance 

of tolerance 
for pain

as if 

repeating 
failures... 

were 
a virtue 
not 
a vice...

as in 
building 
an 
immunity
to
 the very poison
which 
is the freedom
that flows 
within 
our blood

just as 
spiritual energies
flowing 
throughout 
our souls

that which 
use like winds, 

sailing ships
since ancient times

 yes, 
the 

physics 
if it 

could be said 
that misfortune
should not 
be fit 
instruction
as 
to how 
to conduct 
ones course 

we should be 
in our life, 

such 
scholars 
there 
may be 
so little time 
to correct 
what we have 
ignored...

yes...

ignorance, 

albeit intentional
has cost us 

greatly, 

will cost us 
more dearly 
still, 

pray
 
that we will learn
within our time

survival by communicating ideas
has brought us here...

it has been no accident

believe it or not

all the seemingly crazy 
half+baked notions 

of odd thinkers and heretics 

brought us where we are
how dare that you believe, 

differently

what did you imagine 
possible…
watching other animals

observing 
other natural phenomenon

who 
would have known, 

what 
and why not 
try 
with guile,
not 
unlike the cat, 
to catch birds 
when you could not fly 
or the fish 
when you could not 
swim faster,

you who 
did not breathe the water 

who says 
that you can’t navigate 
or tell the seasons 
by the stars,

to walk in space, 

not only to leave the atmosphere 
but set foot on the moon 

or further, maybe even mars, 

to make our homes among the stars,

or even live as gypsies 
between the interplanetary systems 

of our choosing even though 

it might take generations 
of us living in between 

worlds...

confident that such reasoning 

to be valid enough 

to stake our collective futures upon

like global warming or Iraq

where is the physics in that?

 if we are to survive it seems we’ve got to find...
better ways to continue to thrive 

not merely to just get along
but, to live…

maybe i am wrong to say this...

although, the hour is late

you will know not 
when the end will come for us...

individually and collectively

there was something written long ago 

about a bridegroom

who was to be a spirit keeper

might just as well it be said 

by the grim reaper

to so many those of us who 

never hear to the train that’s coming

while here we are walking the tracks

say what you might know of 

the doppler effect not knowing 

the properties of what you fool with 

or how dangerous nature can be

have we forgotten, again? 

what we play with in ignorance 

can erase us from the space 

between our period and the next 

you who could not even fly

we 
had better learn 

fast

 ask 
the fossil 
of the 
dinosaur 

who 

might be 
laying next to you

when 
what remains of you
is uncovered 

from beneath the earth

whose future 
has been eclipsed 

by his 
past

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