What They Want
they crossed a wide savannah
and found the water’s edge
lashed wood with vine to find
that laid beyond the horizon -
that is what they wanted
they shored upon novel rock
came across new forage
and animals - and ate,
satiated, they lay -
that is what they wanted
other beings being spied
through trees quietly,
watched and studied,
til marauded and killed
then danced and chanted -
that is what they wanted
and so take time to
encircle the sphere
arrogating that found
as rightly divine right
what's there theirs claimed -
that is what they wanted
bolting to the skies
to see another view
a feather in the cap,
they discovered, they flew -
that is what they wanted
at the new apogee with
explosive new abilities
they drop in on - Dresden,
Nagasaki, Chongqing, Grozny -
that is what they wanted
yet more of kind are
kindly found to take in
wandering and hungry
to feed, teach and clothe,
that is - what they wanted
pan away to another day
to see club and machete
arcing hard and arcing far
to stain the light crimson -
that is what they wanted
then pouring plaque to her feet
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning"...
"the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door"*
because that, is what they wanted
exaltation of the like,
condemnation to counterpoint
vindictive to vindicate
they abrogate what they hate -
that is what they want
beings are informally
birthed into their normality
to be ruled or rule by
helical curved desires maybe
no matter what is wanted
who or what cannot resist
our human desire of want,
ability to cease and desist
acts of injury, of perjury
to evolve to another being
because that, is what they want
© Goode Guy 2013-01-24
* The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus
Copyright © Goode Guy | Year Posted 2013
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