CCLXXXIV - Reflections in a Park

James Rainsford, writing at dVerse, offered the above photo as a prompt.

Reflections in a Park

With firm steps and confident strides
We walk to the beat of the civilized drum;
Feigning control of that which still resides
In the base of what we have now become.

There are two halves to the modern man
Not left and right but the old and the new.
It you venture back to where it began,
You’ll find we’re exhibits, in a common zoo.

Society, as a whole, gets quite distressed
When a member acts in a manner, dire,
But there is a fact that’s seldom addressed:
We are all just animals, in formal attire.

And so we walk through life’s temporal park,
Two creatures, travelling side by side.
The light side ever trying to rein in the dark,
The social Jekyll to evolution’s Mr Hyde.

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© 2012   J Cosmo Newbery

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