Our Shameful Distance

This. Selfish. Race:

Instinctively, we react

Protecting ourselves

Against the Illusion

With hysterical madness, and

Under the domination

Of Trepidation

Evolved intellectually

But suffocating

On empathy inhaled

Too deeply, and

We never exhaled ...

And now we fall

And we suffocate slowly

On our solitary demise

Purged into the Hateful Mass

Spiraling, and

We are

Out of control

In a perpetual state of

Numb survival

Blind and effortless

Trudging through

The motions displaced

By egotistical emotion

And hailing, we

Salute to Fear

And the knee-jerk reactions

Endangering us with

Fate dominated

By ignorance, but

Corrective action is

Hovering ...

Perched on

The horizon in --

Olive trees

But like a whore spread ...

On the porch of

An escapist's brothel

We bargain addicted, and

In the name of

Our Insecurities

We succumb --

Dead to the Acceptance

Offered in:

The name of Equality

Shedding light on

The unconditional family

Waiting, and ready with

Kneaded compassion, and

Our lost freedom found.

But to set aide

Our indulgent motives

It seems simple --

But it resides somewhere

Still out of reach

And too far away.