some humanity

by Roberto Lavidez

some humans

are more human

than others

animated

by curiosity

and the thirst

for knowledge

living

to seek meaning

seeking

to know the world

treads through

interwovenness

of human life with

the natural world

standing firm

against the

threatening flux

of daily existence

overcoming 

paralysis

typical of the 

hopeless

engaged in

curing the ills

regarded as

the impossible

the intractably

unpoetic

plunging into 

controversies

of historical

determinism

probing into 

man’s mental 

functioning and 

dysfunctioning

which prompts

a bird to cry out

in protest

before disappearing

into the rainstorm

into the common mass

of common rubbish

all too familiar

with the reduction

of men to machines

incessantly voicing

forbodings of its 
diminished future

cursing those 

deemed civilized

for undermining 

their so called sense

of empirical faultiness

and moral gravity

for the unspeakable shit

that they leave behind
the unscriptable 
that remains in culture

©robertolavidez2013