When we look into the liquid
drowsy eyes of a child do we see
hovering there an elusive soul
preparing to guide its bodily host
through the channels of perception
over years of encounters with life?
Or has that soul been drenched in
prior experience and knowledge
as an inheritance from predecessors
in a shared group memory complete
with the culture of awareness and
the acute significance of who and
what they are eclipsing reason when
emotions beyond personal reflection
overwhelm the receptive senses to
produce another persecuted victim
prepared to take its ancestral echo
into spiritual conflict with the world's
realities in fealty to a vision of self
sacrificed to an unseen presence held to
create and command all that exists?
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