Things are most pivotal  when advances are at stake.
millions of people
live at leisure with breathing, intake and exhale
and at such a loss would they be
if their lungs collapsed
and their body fell.
what a struggle that would be
like watching a moth die
as you poked and probed with a sewing needle.
would it make you cruel?
does it make the moth cruel when eating your clothes?
and once the moth in agony died, would you cry?
would you have it a funeral?
I have this evocative voice in my head
that tells me...
no, you wouldn't.
but its the imbrication of it all...the act of, the act of doing,
whose to say that suffering isnt as beautiful as the birth?
Is it inhumane not to have a preference?
would you consider one without a preference numb?
are we not all animals in the same circle of life and death?