life living important to Nature
seemingly obvious and yet not so
definitions by the human-kind
tend to cause confusion
where life’s cognitive capabilities
seem to dictate a kind of hierarchy
wherefore proselytized about
that a lesser kind of life
was created or evolved in a way
as the servant to human–kind

as if life's fate or future
depends on some kind of life
as a self-appointed taskmaster
maybe the future of humanity
is systemically reliant upon
the way other kinds of life
live or continue to live in Nature
for who has proven more worthy
in sustaining life, humanity
or the rest of life living together
did not other kinds of life
come to be and then survive
way long, long before
the human came to be

oh humanity, so brilliant and wise
with your superior mind power
stop and ponder this through
have not other kinds of life risen
aspired and fought to dominance
only then to suffer a demise
thereafter leaving about traces
bringing to mind a remembrance
imprinted in time as a lesson
as to the surviving process of life

how life living life, affects
sustains and preserves
all of life’s kinds by being
interrelated together as one
connected and interdependent
within Nature as a whole system

If human-kind is to go on
and not suffer a demise as a kind
human-kind must learn to use
its gift of mind along with
the lessons of lived experience
about the process of life living life
why so, because only life living
matters to Nature, not kind

~Keith Alan Hamilton~