I can’t reconcile what we are
with what we are.
We can love with incredible passion
and hate with searing intensity.
We idolize and brutalize our children
and sacrifice everything for them.
We celebrate life
and kill for sport
And eat pretty much anything that
we can grow, kill and swallow.
We conquer everything
and each other
And cannot live long enough to enjoy
what we do and have done.
We turn from God to science
and back again
And cannot seem to live for today
or for tomorrow.
And we die hoping
for more of the same…
And hoping to escape
into nothingness.
And, no matter what we learn,
there’s more we want to know.
