Topic: Humankind

The human race is besotted
with itself, endlessly fascinated
by itself, indulges in myriad
explorations in search of answers
about itself and has over the
millennia of the spoken word
transferred legends to form the
basis of its library all accounting
for human existence and exploits
on a planet primally colonized
and shaped to fit human ingenuity
so capable of manipulating its
environment. We read in an
omnivorous hunger to discover
how, when, why and where our 
emotions and controlling spirit
takes us. Those imbued with
insight or even merely the
self confident belief that they
have mastered a level of
self-knowledge are acclaimed
as historians, novelists, leading
us into the inner world of their
imaginations, as we devour their
language, are enthralled with the
wisdom of their introspection
and exit their celebrated minds
reluctantly, none the wiser.