Can Mankind Survive Mankind
as children we watched the sky wind clouds
from amongst trees or sandy beech crowds
we played in the water and had fun with reflections
picturing lions tigers and bears as with our cloud assumptions
until isaac newton no one understood the nature of light
water reflections and cloud images were mysteries in actual sight
ancients pictured these visual echoes in rivers of water or air as proof
revealing what exists above is but thought to what lies beneath
high ideals of mind grasped a system of logic that appeared as lawed
from above the cloud image reflections of those looking down called the gods
heaven was thought as wisdom above so below was pain ignorance and death
and we slowly evolving fractal biological thought forms knot and pain the earth
typically problems grow till out of control and we finally summon all our forces
to first protect corporations with legal 'personhoods' not our people sources
of families labor and taxes without guaranteed government health care fallback
just an 'us against them' two party political system with hollywood at its back
stan sand
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