Living

Living

Living beings need to eat other living things
Chalk and cardboard
And foitballs  may feed a Good Boof
But we're not like that at all.

We scour the world
Making it our oyster
Survival is
Making
Meat by association
Not of the fittest
But the weakest.
And what idealism
Can our deoxygenated ribose molecules
Boast of?
Sugar forever searching
Hungry to make itself.
The zenith of humanity
Is biology
Lining up amino acids
Against the wall
Take no prisoners
Watch the dominoes fall
In exact patterns
And making proteins
Making proteins
Or making love
Fold them into desired shapes
Curl deeper
Curve into yourself
We need to race to the moon
And back
In our brains.

Each cell blindly
Copying itself.

The wonder of life.
Or
The myth of
Wonder.

Meat by association.
Chained together
Bio disorganized "isms"
Like Dominoes
We fall.

In love
In Illusions
And disillusions
And fatal errors
From which

We never recover.
Cancer cells of the soul
For all.

We fall.

(c) Amrita Valan 2017