MY PEOPLE

Every one from closest and nearest

in expanding lineages locally,

familiar in appearance 

as well as habit and language

outwardly to distant, kindredish connections

and further outlandish differences or adaptations

to alien beyond-all-pales:

and incomprehensible otherworldly impossibles.

Ever expanding till there’s nowhere to go…

except upward or downward 

- inward or outer:

like tree-roots, battering against boundaries:

the way they grow via resistance,

inch by inch, strengthening.

Evolving, arising from separation

to collective-consciousness,

(whether sub, supra!) or every-daily.

Else, they continue replicating ad inf

 - those time-worn, juvenile patterns of ago;

truly stuck.