we can practice that universal
respect we’re still not ready
to implement for humans and all
living and non-living things
though we can finally acknowledge
we preserve our enemies
primarily as a way of avoiding
doing something about our own priorities
while remaining uncertain what will
come of such clever insights and analogies
in terms of actual boots on the ground
because every summer they try to pull us out
into their vast networks and star-fields
to lose ourselves in the light
and every winter they drag us back down
into the cold caves of our brains
where in the darkness we draw
all we have seen and see again
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