To Bring Birth…
by Odin Roark

To bring birth…
remains man’s neuronal quandary,
the mortal battle with the will of cells
knowing only visionless duty to reproduction.

How vacuous the realm of reason has become.

Where once a species’ knowledge took center stage,
such now slumps in beleaguered shadow,
peering from the wings of relegation,
concerned that re-entrance may never be cued.

Global birth soars unabated,
becoming future’s audience
applauding the world’s dis-ease
as barbarism’s necessary reality.

Such has become the rationale of deniers,
blind to the seduction of unconscious slavery,
where long abandoned synaptic health
drags shackled reasoning into decision’s arena
awaiting battlement’s continued blood lust
where further defeat rewards history’s next round
of unenlightened self-adulation.

Yes…
Perhaps the notion to bring birth
deserves further thought.