Radioactive

Elated, why wouldn’t we be?

Humankind’s periphery of the universe continues to widen as we speak

We? We’ll always be considered slant eyed,

Even if we all can peer back thirteen billion years

Hindsight can never be extended to the future

Or bring to light, savagery carried on the backs

For the sake of enlightenment or foresight to see

Backwardness is a lens, not an attributed to be attributed

It’s to enlighten and pave the way

The way of things, like what the hell we are even doing here

And to recognise nuances of destructive behaviours

That set us back to primal days as merely another hominid

Why such split between us, why must dignities and lives be halved?

In search of superiority - splitting atoms

See energy is not abundant

Not at least in the way we apply it

There’s one thing to have power

To wield requires something greater

Like building things that benefits all

Not separate while others recuperate

Not forgetting while we marvel at time and space

To appreciate the time needed for fallout

To no longer radiate.

Toxicity needs a reduction

With mother nature’s help to catch up

No matter how sophisticated

Hashtags are not the epitome

Of our greatest strengths, no matter how greatly engineered

It will not stop hate and our destructive ways

Hashtags and slogans do not reduce fallout, or reanimate

Lives turned to dust, especially ones that will never come back

How wonderful it is to look back from where we began

And forget how much longer we have left to go

To truly activate our potential

And deactivate that what harms us

To feel and hear the adverse

Of those who watch their backs and anticipate

The continuing fallout

Left behind by unchecked power