Irony of Ironies

Sometimes it’s all too tiring
facts and opinions
beliefs and conditioning
propaganda commercials
internal dilemma
cognitive dissonance

Sometimes it’s all too
pedantic too
semantic too
cerebral or too
emotional to appreciate
the irony of it all 

Survival depends on
cooperation of the whole
brains and hearts
individual and community
humanity and our ecology 
less humankind ends

alone and forgotten
in burned-out remnants
of abundance of our
once high civilization
irony of ironies is
the key we missed

fighting ourselves
we’ve lost it all
heart and mind and soul
and home and community
despite the high-functioning
intellect that once defined us

and the sentience
that follows will not 
be ours perhaps another 
plane of cosmic string
a condition of existence
universal or quantum

On to the next
evolutionary adaptation
the current one
having committed suicide 
by ecocide and hubris 
irony of ironies

–LE