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Why this chaos?

John T. Hitchner

What am I to you?
What are we to each other?

Ivy clings to walls,
vines to trees,
and water finds its path to streams,
streams to rivers,
and rivers to the sea:
the eternal cycle of Nature.

And you and I:
Are we tendrils of ivy
or swimmers toward a dark shore?
Do our arms and hands seek and touch each other
by Reason or by Nature?
By Logic or Lust
do we touch our beating hearts
and listen to our blood?

The sea tempts us.
We yield to its ebb and flow.
It must have us.
Yet, unlike saved Jonah,
the sea will not release us home.
It will punish and consume us.
Such is our fate
for our dry wilderness of the mind:
for searching for victims
and preying upon them
in Night and Fog,
and then casting away the corpses
into trenches;
for an invasion of a home
where mother, father, and children sleep,
never to awaken,
never to hear again the solace of breath,
never to feel again the comfort of embrace.

And so, is it lack of conscience
that draws the knife,
slashes the throat?
Or, is it a simple wish
to feel what it’s like to kill life?

Why this chaos?
What am I to you?
What are we?

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