Zoo Vision (Everywhere)
what you see
is not what you get—
a shallow fantasy,
created by a humble godhead.
i wonder—
what is it like,
for the dead?
this life,
a demon on horseback,
racing through space and time,
charging into all that is black.
perhaps, one day,
they will turn in the shadows,
and smile—
stop to talk
for a while,
beneath the lazing sun.
it takes so long
to realise who you are—
and then,
you are gone.
upon a pot of gold,
by a broken rainbow,
sit the old ones,
laughing at the world.
that might as well
be us—
but surely,
we can afford to be a little smug.
can’t we?
after all,
aren’t we supposed to be
something higher?
some call it humanity—
the struggle to rise
above so-called animals,
the struggle to be free.
but look around,
at the blood-red world,
and ask yourself—
have we?
James Garratt
This poem is part of a printout and the original writing pad, sadly no longer exists.
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