Sunday, August 12, 2012

to synchronize, or not


the herd and the lone   

humans are herd animals,
prey to the alphas among us,

we are attracted to the other, to the group, to big cities,

yet humans are also solitary animals,
sensitive to the group, and oppositional,
so that one can deliberately go the other way
just to be contrary to the herd,

within us are countless gears
that easily line up and interlock with chains around us,
and we synchronize our actions and opinions,

I feel the toothed wheels in myself
yearn to synchronize with nature’s chains,
and sometimes I just yearn to spin free,

how great it can be to synchronize,
how great it can be to be alone for awhile,
before the various driving chains grab hold of us again.

by Henry H. Walker
August 6, ’12

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