So be quick! a poem (tho/en)

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Travelling gives you a different perspective on humanity, and a lot of time to ponder and reconsider everything. Let's say the results are not always optimistic, especially in proximity with almost untouched nature. Or rather, it would be, weren't it for certain creatures.

borderless is
the arrogance
the lack of care
of the human breed

overflowing empathy
blindly discarded
for a straight walk
to just one lamp's lead

its glow casting shade
over all what matters
all what means
the existence and survival
the glory of a nesting hawk
the shiver from a freezing
midnight's walk

the sounds and sights
all bound to one
without leaders or a plan
yet all working
on their common little
interwoven plot of land

but humans
set in their ways
build walls, borders
break bonds, boulders
mindlessly
as if they were to disappear
the next day

so be quick!

extract, destroy
hunt and prey
as nothing matters
more than yachts
on trash covered lakes

all the complexity
anxiety
curiosity
wonder
eternally slumbers

for the man
made up his privilege
made up his reasons
racing forward out of fear
locked in, never slowing down

steering clear
from every friction
bulldozing hindrance
for a fiction

to become a pristine slate of argentine
to become the knight of stones and spears
to become the king, the ruler
of a world that he
made disappear.

2026-07-10