Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Monkey In Humans

Do monkeys see humans as monkeys or humans?
Are we humans outside and monkeys inside?
O, why do monkey things happen in human affairs?
God gives the word and a higher level of thinking to humans
But still it is monkeys they turn up to be;
Why do bad things happen to good people?
God gives a flower to humans, but they turn into monkeys
And tear the flower up;
How do you love a human who has been scorched,
How do you love a woman who has been scorned,
How do you love a child who has been hurt,
Without the monkey in them snatching
It away and up a tree, defiant look and all?
How do you tame the wild when the wild does not want to be tamed?
Can you fashion a handbag from monkey skin?
Why o why do I have to fall for a love monkey?
Who teases, tears, tosses, tests and tricks?
Is a sense of love lost a signpost for a sense of new love found?
As in paradise lost, paradise returned?
And how would you like to bury a love lost
By conceding the ultimate irony:
"Let it be,"
Says humanity,
In the very same monkey?

1 comment:

myaroza said...

"Teases, tears, tosses, tests and tricks" - are all about love. That's what I believe. But all these are not from a monkey, but from a "jinak jinak merpati", she's smart and that someone must be smarter than her.

This love, surely not from a monkey. But I believe, a monkey will understand other monkey better. They know, that love is their love.

Me, never fall in love with any monkeys, even many monkeys and ungkas liked me. I am still waiting for my "intelligent modern Tarzan" who's still missing in the jungle.