It’s a symptom of Western reductionism.
Strip everything to its parts,
Ignore the whole,
Forget the environment it was ripped from.
Whether dissecting a fruit to its traces of vitamins & minerals
Or a man to his bare genetic frame
Ignore the liquid blue elephant in the room.
Our bodies are 70% made of it,
Earth is 70% covered in it,
There’s enough of it in the air
To coat our planet with an extra inch!
How do we ignore that?
We’re trained like dogs
To mistake its taste for tasteless,
Mistake thirst pangs for hunger,
Mistake its fall from heaven for bad weather,
Mistake its exit from a mother’s womb for broken.
We must de-domesticate ourselves.
Drink
Until we’re bursting to pee out the ignorance
We forced our bladders to hold in
‘Cause we thought it was bliss.
Drink
Until our pores have to pour out
The years of pollutants we slathered on our skin
‘Cause we were told they fight the signs of aging.
Drink
Until your brain is quenched with knowledge
And your spine & joints are saturated with a passion
To drown out the dams that quarantined you from truth.
Drink
And when you’ve achieved that
Go for a swim in yourself
So you always remember where to turn
To return to the perfection
You were stripped from.
© One Tawny Stranger, June 2016
