LOST

I am lost among the civilized

for I do not understand them anymore.

My mind is unable to comprehend

the turns and bends

that have become acceptable

in the places where people live

lives of faithless afraid.

Man has conquered man

only to find

that it was his own brother

he slaughtered

playing tea table games.

I woke from the ageless

never ending war of class

with my face aflame ashamed

by the blood drenched mud

barely able to breathe

waiting for that final need

the civilized would send

to end my way of  life

not among the multiplying;

for I was not laboratory cultured right.

Escaping the petri dish

may have been a wrong decision,

that seemed good at the time

but all I wanted to do

was think differently than them

that surrounded me.

I was younger then

and never figured that thinking differently

on the meaning of diversity

would be found to be uncivilized.

I am lost among the civilized

for I do not understand them anymore.

If I ever did.

© M Durfee

5/25/13