inward

I think it says something about human nature, 
our eagerness to explore the interstellar world
yet our reluctance to dive deep within,
hold curiosity about 
the very things beneath our feet.
We train our astronauts,
accustom them to a change in gravity through
submergence in the seas
but we know so little about
what lies in those murky depths.

I think it says something about human nature,
how willing we are to look outward-never-inward,
a hammerhead shark with keen eyes peeled for prey but
overlooking its own nose, mouth, the front of its head, its
biggest vulnerability.

Vulnerabilities being most unpleasant,
instead of addressing them, we
ignore sweeping blind spots
until a venomous stonefish nips at the flesh and 
every 
little 
carefully 
contained 
hardship-secret-insecurity 
floods out
droplets becoming one with the sea and 

here’s a little comfort: 
in the incomprehensible vastness of the sea,
every tear and atom you shed
will join the water
insignificant
one with the ocean,
and however long it takes
the world will keep on spinning 
and eventually
it will forget
except one single creature:
you.

I think it says something about human nature.

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