The Littleness of Bigness

The love we make unequal to the wake of our indifference Towards enemies and neighbors, an overcrowded raft weighed down Barely afloat, as glaciers crash Into rising oceans of biblical prophecy, splashing Absolute reality denials, rising upwards like an angry dog Under armed nuclear clouds The bigness of our littleness Prism of myriad strength in numbers Oneness of our fractured shards Eager chatter tit for tat, otter and rat Fraternizing enemies within Foes of soul hid outside the matrix Loose screws rattling glass ceilings Projected through innocent others Counterpoints, lovers and other Disassociates wielding Their own baggage to the slough It's a wonder airplanes don't crash, highways turn to wreckage More often as the bigness of our littleness scatters Effervescently into notions of sacredness and cynicism Like witty revelations of dumbstruck reckoning Cosmic observations of misaligned reasoning dance round a pole Trendy and dated, eternally enrolled As the littleness of our bigness unfolds In blood splotches, in the news and toilet bowl In the demise and hope for our children In the snide bickering line drawn across the house A cold civil war Distracted by smartphones and wisecracking sneers Hogging bandwidth for immediate twitter Core resources towards electric cheers for fear Impenetrable stability of Manhattan notwithstanding Insects biting guests in bed A covertly American grip on democracy Uncompromising, dogmatic Beacons of irrationality belligerently facing Away from the hurricane Locking the pearly gates to the foreign and ungreedy Sowing seeds of terror, squandering Futures for yesterdays, tomorrows For moments Heaven rides on a shore of remorse Against impenetrable tides of irrelevance Shied away from and ignored Too paralyzing to contemplate To merit its activity Salvation a deceit away From the bigness of our littleness, bludgeoned By the littleness of our bigness In contradictions recognized and constipated By liberal truths, conservative abortions and rebirth Closeted vices torched by crowds of lesser virtue Human rights re-cloaked in freedom granted for a hoax Hollywood endings, narcotic placebos, spiritual drain on the dynamo As progress builds a dam, floods the village Stomping out their language altogether in a rapid competition For diminishing space, air, water, land, food and culture Shrine smashed, temple mocked Samaritans load big guns for the walk Lessons lost, survival found Weak links in the armor aroused The littleness of our bigness bows Before today's private moments Between lovers and associates Paper armies, us and them In varying pigments of skin and genetics, dress and culture Ambitions and truths, irrelevant But to ourselves, gasping Our last breath alone, surmising The littleness of our bigness