Darwinian Dehumanization

This great man’s epiphany probably nothing
more than self-discovery… his literal walk
in the park, a forest, perhaps his mind and nothing
more. Perhaps just needing to know. But what? And
how have we taken those words, where his silence
is consenting and runaway with the basic idea.
Truly animal, we allow ourselves to reflect
the basic nature we succumb to. Are we truly
animal? Wandering through concrete jungles
of civility allowing our neighbors to die
in gun-fights, to be dragged for seventeen
blocks before the driver is told by an on-looker
that there is a man under his car. Is that
survival of the fittest? Or the grossest
rationalizing of our mind and humanity?
To surrender wholly to apathy, to allow
fear to over come our kindness. Perhaps
Darwin was an animal for believing we couldn’t
choose or think? Or perhaps it is Darwin’s
captors who are animals–the one’s who buy
into his dehumanizing view and make it
law over man and consciousness. Yes,
his moment of epiphany, nothing more
than self-awakening, nothing more than
realizing the truth in the steps we’ve taken
in reverence of our civil evolution…
now to remember…