We Are Not Sharks
We are not sharks:
We have the gift
of stillness.
We do not have to keep moving
to keep the air flowing through us,
to keep alive, to keep sated, keep feeling,
to keep on, to keep on, to keep-
We may pause.
We do not have to
lose our minds
at the scent of blood.
We do not have to be
an integrity
only to ourselves.
We are not sharks;
all that is not us
is not food
or death
or darkness;
All that is not us
may be all that matters.
We are not alone;
We are purposed
beyond reason,
We, the still,
the quiet,
the hungry,
but not hunting -
We are not sharks.
This poem is about:
Our world