Leaving Behind Armageddon

I do not want to plot my thoughts
against another generations demise,
hoard gold, buy stocks in silver mines.
If I view it all like
a body,
where are the blood lines
and what is the oxygen?
Can you see it from that view
each of us pumping our thoughts
into to this giant organism
and deciding what we will
make happen?
Can you see it
swelling and contracting
like a heart
like a heartbeat
kicking out new born
souls and aberrations.
What if we are doing that
and being watched?
What if there is some
saline solution
that we savor ourselves in?

In 9th grade
three things happened to me.
I realized that though taught
to name, maybe we don't
see the same color
looking at red or blue or green.
Or maybe twelve inches
is a yard for you
or a different math system
would work better.
And, that the most important things
were not the atoms, waves or particles
but the space between.

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