"Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing is wrong"

it feels like we've slipped
somehow

back in time
evolution rewinds

i thought i remembered you once,
when i ideas were presented, roads were paved.

instead we've found ourselves bearing clubs.
dirty and shivering. sleeping in caves.

every ounce of sophistication
perspired through our pores
a sweltering civilization

i could swear,
...we had somewhere better to start from
it seems to me
...we should have progressed beyond this.

yet,
here we are.
dirty and shivering. sleeping in caves.
hardly matured an inch passed beating our prey over the head with rocks.

hope dances on my heartstrings.

I can hardly focus

through the drip the drip the dripping

that echoes here.

Probably forever...
My pockets are deep with overused sayings
of hope
and the impression that hangs

from the ceiling

like icicles

If only I could see
passed the splash the splash the splashing
of the puddles it creates
here and there
that crowd my life and block my paths

Why am I holding so tight
when as sure as this frost is thawing
it will turn to icy water
and slip through my fingers
indefinitely