typhoon mourning

Those from the days before warned us of this day

Like brail they engrained their belief, “all people are people through other people,” into the heavens where we seek hope, and the ground where we find enough gravity to stand, giving us momentum to push forward to tomorrow

But this truth has been cloaked as we shout and drink for no reason other than the death of another

Humanity fragmented, and we wonder why and how and when will it all stop. But we continue to wave flags in jubilee, filling the streets with festivity, ignoring the fact that flags are nothing but symbols of man-made lines that divide us from them and them from us and you from me and me from you…the outcomes of wars and lost lives all sacrificed for the flag.

And today another man falls, but we can cheer and praise this death as he is no man at all but a symbol of terror and murder—a monster feasting on the flesh of innocence, biting venom into the veins of life.  But what divides monster from man and man from monster? Is it the act of bloodshed without blinking an eye, without stepping from the body in remorse? Is it such hatred for a brother that cheers flood the streets like early typhoon rains? Is it the destruction of an earthly shell so that a mother and father can’t return their seed to the soil from which we all thrive? 

We must remember the words of the wise. The earthquake of pride and fear crumbles the tower, unlocking your fingers from mine and mine from yours, making my tongue foreign to yours, and leaving my eyes jaded by the debris of blame and judgment. Small particles of dust unseen by the mirror, but vivid to a soul of any other creed.  And these particles bond forming machines without hearts and killers without consciousness’. 

So one team rejoices while another mourns and plans for revenge, and the cycle continues just as souls vanish to light the skies, trying to illuminate the words for a future. So with dust in our eyes and poison on our tongues we prance around forgetting the typhoon always remembers to flood our streets, reminding us we are all human.