Filament

Photo by Jason Blackeye on Unsplash

Just what dwells in your heart?
Which way does it bend?
In domination of others?
of earth’s resources
of her creatures
or
of communion, recognition
of tenderness
of a connecting line
through birds, beasts, craggy crevices
humans, eras, the ages
the continuity of existence
from the paleozoic to the mesozoic
to now.