Only Human

Only Human stripping away the shielding peels and layers of a heart that reels searching for solace in an ocean of overwhelming promises more slippery than eels only human... sand-paper strokes grating within piercing the moments like shrapnel before they even begin only human... devoid of malice and of ill-intent burning out rapidly in order to merely be content only human... thoughts swarming around the flaming mind silencing the bellowing hounds in a world so patently unkind only human... fleetingly here and then into the dust to mingle at times howling a dirge of sorrow yet sometimes whistling joys' lilting jingle only human... aren't we all just human so... may we then briefly halt and think and see the truth that always was and always will be that truth that bears bounties from our common tree the truth that humanity rests within us all in you and in me...