Under The Umbrella

A poem

Photo by Murilo Silva on Unsplash

Why?
I mean, why the need to know?
Some say it’s us
The complicated exploitative species
Apart from regal elephants
Where memories are deep
Protected by the yellow golden vastness
Of adult reed forms
That ask the question
Why?

The million other living species
Of earth that break the day
That never ask the question

The loss
Of this simple word
Can free the burdens
The expanse of which is infinite

The search of beauty
Dissolving bells
Where the sounds of questions
Echo in the mirrored distance

Welcome help
To the egoic companion
The somewhat hidden alpha
Fixing
Wanting
Hoping
Solutioneering all before me

A protector
Purpose to fulfil
A natural disposition
Have I succeeded?
If in the…