The wilderness tightens, so does it feel
As our surroundings
become more and more alien
Before you know it,
you’ve turned into a fragile homunculus
But is this little creature in a jar,
In many ways
not just an allegory of the western man,
Never truly having felt, living inside a matrix
So alien from the real world, real struggle,
Only self-pity, broken dreams and jealousy,
This curse eats away the soul, does it not?
The people of the grave,
desperate for a second of attention,
All for sale, is this not
what makes real organising impossible?
“Knowledge must be paired with deeds”
So says Al-Ghazali, “Young man, if knowledge alone was sufficient for you and you did not need work besides, then his summons?”
When will we wake up to reality,
Finally grasp that a real world awaits,
A world where we have a voice
Where we too will feel human,
So we can start treating others as such…
Finally!