it’s not just flesh and bone–
there are greater forces at work

you may choose to be oblvious
to the Larger World–it remains indifferent–
but it is there, nonetheless

you may wish the universe
operated in some other fashion,
but Nature does what she does
and there is not one thing you
can do about it

you are not in control 
of much at all–
the little you do control
are those things
beyond what 
the eye can see–
the things of which
poets and pastors
speak

yet many, like volunteer zombies,
ignore the capacity
of their soul,
trading it–willingly–for
a nine-to-five,
a cell phone, the
approval of others