by LJ Frank
Buried in the tombs
of ancient history
hundreds of centuries
Before the Common Era
fragments of papyri
depict humans
as animals without remorse
historians from Herodotus,
Ban Zhao, Siam Quian,
Tacitus, Livy,
Thucydides and even Berossos
and others with slender traces
of writings and inscriptions
amid critics possessed with varied opinions,
Asian, Near Eastern, African myths & others
a hidden verity waiting to become a gospel,
the animal in humans repeats itself
up to the present high technology minute,
one admits that chronological age
is different than the biological
particularly from an economic perspective
intelligence and wisdom can be expensive;
Age is an economic matter,
greater than a behavioral one,
when deciding the fate of another human
affected and infected by a decision
just perhaps not their own,
but isn’t that the history of humankind
the chronological age of a person
is not determinant of a life lived
and though wit may leave an impression
in books filled with quotes,
witticisms are not a mark of wisdom
and the ruse of the ruler is simply
self-absorption;
Biological age is connected
to the physical and emotional
since primitive humans walked the landscape
the ills of the flesh is heir to heritage,
though the brain is ever awake
and yet fails when unused or manipulated
genetics is a determinant in our destiny
and to be misled comes with a price;
All ages have their warring struggles
lacking the imagination of peace
the animal in humans is a matter of evolution
as is adoration
sin is a convenient word invented by humans
but is not deep enough
for the evolutionary evidence at hand
the human mind seeks the simplest
move and motive
on the chessboard of existence;
My premise is that all living matter
within the expanding universe or multiverse
is seeded with the ability to think
with a moral sense, learned or natural,
still our fate is a matter of chance
confounded by one’s environment
and the economics of avarice
and opportunity,
with a single question remaining
as the human brain appears
to be still evolving,
but with the ever-receding possibility
of a revelatory intervention
will we become a fossilized-foot print
into The Obscurity?
