A Germ... # 2

I’ve been searching all my life

Actively seeking and silently observing -

Reading, feeling, breathing in -

The sounds and sights and rhythms;

I’ve been trying to tie down

This thing that we’re sold -

Google it, and you’ll see what I mean -

Endless pages of game lodges

With a couple of NGO’s in between:

I couldn’t find it on the street

And most of the books I tried to read

Were published by institutions

That exist to perpetuate

The paradigm

That laid the foundation

For our shame.