Elucidating Questions

Humanity is so backwards

Going to space?

Sure they’ll try that

Hurtling themselves over terrain in metal boxes powered by fancy explosions?

Sure, why not?

Fly?

Yeah!

Feed the hungry and house the homeless

No

That’s too hard

We can create a machine that can spit out any knowledge it takes in

We can defeat plague and weather

Wage wars of billions of dollars and millions of people

We can build railroads and roads through mountains

Cities

But we can’t house people or feed them

Human beings are so creative they can create an uncanny likeness of a person in pencil

Paint colours that actually look like a place or creature

They invented medicine

But then couldn’t figure out how to get that medicine to all the people that need it

For what fucking reason did you create a cure and then sit atop it like a smarmy Fae and say

Just sign on the dotted line

So creative

So inventive

But can’t figure out how to take care of each other?

Can’t figure out that a hungry stomach creates a desperate monster?

Can’t figure out that sitting out in the rain overnight surrounded by shelter creates an anger you cannot speak?

Can’t figure out the difference between a hungry person who turns to drugs to just make the pain go away

And a billionaire who decided to give himself a raise with his peons’ labour

Even thinks the billionaire is more deserving than the hungry person

They did drugs, you know, and for some reason, without it ever appearing in scripture, because humans like their drugs,

It is morally reprehensible to do them and the punishment can include death, we’re fine with that

But not alcohol, or caffeine, and sometimes marijuana but sometimes not

Because “the law” “is just” right?

I have trouble seeing people who don’t see people as human

I struggle sometimes with thinking everyone should just suffer

But if a person says they are suffering I cannot ignore it

Not like these people around me

It is a failure of humanity that we went to the Moon before every belly was filled, body housed

We defiled her surface with our greed

Our mere presence

To think we were worthy of space flight while people went hungry

That we deserve to see other worlds when we cannot even love our own