Christopher Hansard: [The Origin of the Species]

Language

borne from the issuance

of the searching for meaning

becomes entrenched

in the global mind set of us all

the disfigurement of human dignity

through the rage of others

reveals the larger illness

of the human race

that increasingly

we are becoming more disenfranchised

from the origins of our species

not the evolution of the physical species

but the origins of how our impulses and connections to the natural world

were first formed by the first rain drop

as it fell to the first upgrowing

sprouts of life

verdant,innocent but knowing