Hazy Acres

Simple in a scene 

Felt odd in the bad way 

Can you really debate if people are inherently good?

Recalling laws 

All the rules put on the flow of us

Why

Because we are inherently good?

We’d eat each other if starving 

We’d take water from our neighbor if the water stopped running 

We’d murder to salvage the resources

If we feel someone is stupid we treat them like shit 

To save our own insecurities

Are we good?

Remember the savage eye 

The savage in the heart 

Before the laws

Before we became civilized 

Before we decided rape was wrong 

When hanging blacks was accepted 

When we dropped the bomb from fear 

When we put women in the corners 

Inherently good?

And what of this goodness? 

We evolved morality to drive safely down the street

To order a coffee without being taken 

Yet we still take now

Abduct the young 

Enslave children around the world 

Cheap trinkets

Inherently good for the sake of saying it 

We are not bad either

Is an animal bad when it hunts for food?

Or protects its own in the dark dens?

We invade spaces 

Even in our liberalism we are cruel

Even in our liberal ideas we control language 

Being offended is just not civilized

Who are we lying for 

Whose morality?

Can we really change an animals instincts?

Adultery 

Abandonment

We sit on couches to solve our issues

Knowing the truth deep in the bones

In this we still find meaning

I despise cruelty 

But I know its a fools errand to expect otherwise in this world 

Running to the same place with a quicker ability to order shit 

I’m an optimist after truth 

And we are all bored 

Bored of the vanilla emotions 

The answer currently is an increase in self help

Everyone is spiritual 

Everyone is an empath 

Everyone is everyone 

Everyone is a breath work teacher and does yoga

They offer yoga now with alcohol 

Then gossip at the office about Jane in accounting

Ads during guided meditations

Evolution 

If we weren’t all narcissist you’d delete your instagram account

And ban the selfie like we painted lines on the roads  

And reject being pushed in this box of limitations 

Don’t kill or rape 

But say the truth 

And let others say their truth 

Its not negative if it so 

Even if it fights with your ideal version of existing 

In this savage planet

That we trade in for our own convenience

That we debate still if we have an impact with our actions 

Even while the tornado comes just after another hurricane 

And the floods increase after the fire burned for a year

What is morality when there is a moon 

Every day is a special event now

To increase the credit lines

I’m an optimist after truth 

And thank the sprit for imagination

I live there most of the time 

As an acceptance of my savagery 

And that is why I choose 

Being kind and enter rooms disarmed 

Why I hold the doors and say hello

Why I listen while a strangers eyes communicate 

Why I keep trying 

Why I say I love you 

Why I create things from emotion 

Why I hug and kiss my sons 

I am a savage when I remember

When I realize there has been a programming 

Like a pill you take everyday 

Consciousness after the great sleep 

Sleep no more 

But where can we go from here if not to the beginning?

Or the end to a finite species