RED TAPE & SMALL PRINT

Besides cosmic and human law

we entangle ourselves with  cultural conditionings and expectations

of hierarchical and religious

shoulds and oughts;

imposed under threat or price - to limit and separate.

Unknowing of Trust or Love:

how to be sovereign, free.

It’s all about control and fear -

the survival gene paramount.

Heterarchy is a grown-up concept

we’re only marginally acquainted with -

given our juvenile minds and

behaviours.

We’re still largely rooted in competition, comparison,

and hormonal response;

especially the babes who run the joint.

We didn’t yet know about shadows, echoes and masks or the meaning of Gravity, Time.

So we evolved clever strategies,

like gods or kings - top-down

manikins;

afterall, we only had one cell by way of blueprint -

the prototypical nucleus.

We forgot the earth in us,

wherein all unfolds within -

whilst we prove territorial

 killer mercenaries,

greedy, mindless fools.

Nowadays, festooned with garbled spin.

Expert spinner-scribes

and tape-makers - of all hues and sizes,

methinks.