The Flaw

The Flaw

There is a flaw

                At the core

                                Of the psychotic ape

Great pain

                In the brain

                                Of the fucked up primate.

Pleasure in agony;

Joy in destruction;

Pleasure in art;

Joy in construction.

The schizophrenic life;

Jekyll and Hyde strife;

Up and down, round and round;

Until we’re in the ground.

There is a break,

                Genetic mistake,

                                Genome of the ape.

Mutated code,

                Will explode

                                Every time we mate.

As we rampage

                In the cage

                                Of this planet.

Shit in our nest

                As we infest

                                This lump of granite.

Opher – 28.12.2024

I’ve thought long and hard about it. My conclusion is that we are too intelligent. We are always on the brink. We lurch towards insanity. Our supersized brains are at full capacity. We cannot handle the stress, constantly teetering on the edge. We topple into paranoia.

Humans are damaged goods.

We cannot cope with our own fragile minds. We’ve exceeded the bounds of sanity.

Our history demonstrates it clearly – violence, war, power, greed, betrayal, fear, hate, religion, division, defence, attack and insanity.

If the world was run on intelligence we wouldn’t have billionaires and starvation, war and crime; we’d have music, love, beauty, compassion and art. Paradise.

It is our damaged minds that create hell.

Poetry – Minds

Minds

A spider’s web in a gale.

                Tissues in a fire.

                                Glass under the hammer.

                                                A fly on wet paint.

                                                                Egg shells under the boot.

                                                                                A whimper in a hurricane.

Minds are weak;

                Easily shattered,

And can never

                Be put back together.

In the Ukraine

                Putin

                                Is tearing apart

                                                Generations

                                                                Of fragile

                                                                                Minds.

War,

                As with all violence,

                                Creates trauma,

                                                Destroys minds,

                                                                Wrecks lives.

Tattered remnants,

                Quietly coping.

Opher – 3.3.2022

My father served in the Second World War, my grandfather in the First. They never spoke about their experiences.

It affected the whole of their lives.

They were the lucky ones.

Many came back from war physically undamaged but mentally and emotionally destroyed.

It is not only war, any violence, any trauma, can have the same effect. It eats into our fragile psyche and rips us apart.

Humans are nowhere near as resilient as we all believe. Society is full of damaged people.