HisStory

From its primal cradle in prehistory
spilling into the millennia to follow
nature's pride of formulaic design
in creating a creature capable of
taking possession of her alternate
formulations, striving to emulate
her formidable talents evolved into a
mass of organisms each of which 
became a simulacrum of the original
suffused with the emotional rages
that she herself exhibits in fire, flood
and ice, translating those to an impulse
toward chaos, terror and destruction
stimulated by tribal aggression fed
by territorial advantage; religious
persecution stirred by theocratic hubris;
the compulsion general among
the species, to subjugate others to the
conquest and command of the bold
and those impervious to empathy
toward other living souls. That element
of nature that creates beauty and peace
transfers itself to those capable of
creation and discovery whose nimble
minds cannot conceive of what drives
the evil that besets the world, as they
themselves choose to bypass it all
engrossed in expending their energy
on artistic endeavours, labours of love
and of pensive thought, wonder and
bewilderment at the chaos and wild
disruptions raging about them. In their
naivete oblivious to the carnage, long
since convinced their philosophy of
the inherent goodness of humankind
in all its manifestations cannot be denied.