Humanity

I can taste the staleness of a lie
As I chew your words and make them mine.
How do you manage to live in your bones, I wonder
I tremble at the thought of my life impacting others.
I know we are alive and in a society
Each a brick, a pillar, a building
But why is it that some beings are cruel and okay
And some quiver in the face of not being okay.
Humans have fascinated me beyond measure-
Their arrogance, will, and hope for a better life
Capable of moving planets and mountains-
Creating rockets and plastics.
You see, I am now scared of my fellow creatures
Not just of crowds or of predatory glares from men
But because of this stubbornness
To be right, their will to live over others
Call this dominance natural, and carve a path of destruction
That is now spreading to each and everyone.
No cloud or plant loves me back,
I am stuck where I suffocate the most.
In human nests of massive buildings
Among humans with their sticky problems and histories
And of course, my own humanity that is slipping a day at a time.

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~insight07
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