Replacing Humanity

He who feels it knows it

Bob Marley

I feel it.
Do you?

It’s before the judgement
before reason
logic like poison
and the argument is not whether truth should be poisoned
but maybe it should be.

Ultimate why
Ultimate why
because…because…because…

because we must kill feelings
because feelings get in the way
delicate wisps, foreign but ours
silk smoke tendrils like roots to our souls
and the soul of the universe
the universe doesn’t care
if we blare the airhorn
and throw gasoline on the fire
of our intellect
the tendrils of our soul will always be there
but they cannot be seen through
greasy black smoke
and cannot be felt under the raging
of the excited fire
and so it’s easy
so easy to forget our souls
as we stare, weeping
into the soul connected eyes
of our children
and watch the fire
consume their
youth.