Prime Specimen

Let's set aside for a moment

The ideological connotations of the debate

And take a minute to reflect and acknowledge

Our true nature seems no different than amoebae

And I contemplate, ambivalently, over humanity's behavior

The strides and turns throughout our fraught history

And how we tend to out-compete the very things we depend upon

Swept away - even as our surroundings succumb

We cannot find our way out

Procreate - a higher purpose is a figment

Of our imagination

Sex - the very thing all sentient lifeforms share

The basic premise for species' continuation

Funny how it makes us cast aside our attributes of rational thinking

Added irony: our basic urge to disseminate our genes

Turns out to be our most destructive weapon

The quintessential program which we are all equipped

Is a double-edged sword

Swept away - even as our surroundings succumb

We cannot find our way out

Procreate - a higher purpose is a figment

Of our imagination

Evolution is interdependency by design

Or is it disparity with impunity?

And we assume nothing, nothing of this world

Still believe there's an intelligent force behind our existence?