Religions have taught us that
there is more: something else-
heaven, hell or another place-
or maybe that “things will only
get better” if we try and the
world has hope and this is the
way that it’s ever meant to be.

But to think, and ponder, that we are
a species on this world clamoring to
survive like any species, insisting
that the zenith has been reached
and all our stories we have told
ourselves ever since coming out
of Africa are true and “Where there
is a will there is a way”-the usual
tropes of our existence in belief.

The future is coming at us and our
histories are projecting us forward
and we are now encountering
collisions at points of existence
and survival that are not in our neat
narratives and may not have yet
been thought about as we hurtle out
and hurtle in and think about our
existence as something that perhaps
we have not imagined yet in this life
that is made in imagination and doubt.

 

17/5/2025