Evolutionary

Vibrant minds

Created the structure

Set forth a plan

With well intention,

A common goal to succeed

To plant the seeds of a utopia-

Their foresight lacked

The change of view,

The fluctuating desires of

Ever changing human nature

Of needs and wants-

The constant change of importance

A hierarchy never planned-

A blueprint drawn

With room to erase,

Rearrange and cut out walls-

Create open space

Nurture the minds of followers-

Only for their fluidity to be taken

Turned rigid by supposed “evolution”

Of species more stuck on history

Than the day ahead-

Walls set in place

With no way of transparency

No work-around

Or communication,

The key to the next floor

Next level

Lost and buried deep

Awaiting the true enlightened

To show the world what is next

For a species lost on their own path

Because they’re too busy

Watching someone else’s.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet. novelist, and freelance journalist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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