we, as summoning departure

we, as a people, as a species,

are a deeper truth than countries claim.

we, as a species, 

have made ourselves obliged

yet we somehow ignore this planet itself,

as anything more than a staging area,

as for audience support 

of our eventful lives, 

as in our endless series of wars.

all of which is superficially endowed 

with humans' full attention 

and selfish funding.

all that time and energy 

of human consumption,

misdirected, 

away from caring for the planet directly.

there is a request to clean up, 

more than our adolescent mess, 

to gain a respect for 

and an honoring of,

beyond our species selfishness. 

we seem to opportunistically seethe, 

as hidden premises of disregard.

we play, as if a species 

of only-child syndrome. 

no other species talks to us,

for we only really listen to ourselves.

we mock all other possible conversations.

they all may say in their own way

but we only hear what we want to hear,

as our interpretation serves us .

yikes, what a predicament of composure. 

we rant and rave amongst ourselves,

somehow celebrities of self recognition.

we then live lives of hurtful pride.

we make reality the pretend of our desires,

massive false premises are put into play.

we had people of our species 

who knew better

but we found methods 

of profound disregard.

now we have lone individuals 

who sense the truth

but become the singular drops 

of planet nurturance, ignored.

instead we have governments 

and corporations,

contingencies and bureaus, 

that all play off of each other, 

as relevancy has a self intimacy to it,

that defies and disregards,

that has the strategies 

of self-importance as primary,

captured within 

our species false dominance.

we are a sick joke, unto ourselves.

everyone of us knows that,

but we always have the options 

to live going forward in denial.

we self talk to our own rhetoric 

and its own myopics of response.

maybe this is not our own home planet.

and we are just in pursuit

of a grand exit strategy, 

that we all get to fully participate in.

we are the vanishing act

to surprise ourselves 

with summoning departure . . .