the rain of little needles on your skin,
after falling on shards of glass.
the searing jarr of a blade against your neck.
the aftermath of a slice from a piece of paper,
between your fingers.
the crush, after being rid of by your crush.
the hardening and crumbling,
after being left by the one you love.
the point blank range.
the hollow barrel, up to a bullet,
cocked loaded, but never goes off.
the searing, sizzling of your own flesh;
in a circle around the temple.
the emptiness of life alone.
the unseen fortitude of those who have ...
... pain.
no one likes to talk about it.
no one likes to bring it up.
no one likes to face it.
but anyone who denies it is a fool.
Pain is what connects us all. not joy. not happiness. not being loved. but pain.
As a human race, and as the dominant species of the planet, we have done a fuck all job of up-keeping the only source of life we know we have in the universe. and because of our arrogance we now face challenges not from our own trivial turmoils of race, ethnicity and property; but we now face nature. and as we try as we might, we will never stop the bleaching of corral reefs, the wildfire of forest, or the extinction of species.
which brings me to a point. Humans inherently have a self importance that allows such a dominion over all of earth. but from the bible, to the koran, to secular evolutionary theories. -- human dominion is conceptually not true. we have no control over anything in the form of natural disasters. Just go to www.darpa.mil and see that any attempt to control the world has ended in failure. Read the bible or the koran and see that historically, we have no dominion.
all we have, together as a human race, is pain. we think we know everything. we think we know the solution, we egomaniacally apply ourselves to the world around us. with no forethought. and thus we cause ourselves pain.
as a human race we can't even stop to recognize that the earth is on a tilt toward the sun; which creates all of the habitable places on earth. and the simple fact that we have rocketed off countless objects and numerous nuclear explosives have off-place that tilt beyond equilibrium. and since, we have been running from natural disaster, to natural disaster looking for a cause.
when we are the cause... we are the cause of our own pain.
we cause each others pain
we cause ourselves pain
we cause our progeny pain
This isn't a hippy plea: When have you gone a day without judging someone else based off their beliefs?
all from the arrogance of thinking we're some how special in this vast universe. It makes me think of some bible verse that correlates to "man was made in the image of God." When a simple sock is made in the image of man. no human can or ever will understand what or who God is. God, in all respects of religion, has a characteristic of love the resounds among every single community of faith. but to center that love only on humanity is a farce. and is selfish. so too is to say you understand God's love. no one does. including the writer of this post.
no one is special. we are all equivocally independent. meaning ... no one is more different than the other. you are born, you are, and then you die; just like everyone else. no one needs or deserves a special label.
Thus is arrogance + ignorance at its core. and is what is , its driving the human race six feet under.
