Photosynthesis

Photo by James Rainsford

Submitted for "One Shoot Sunday" Poetry Challenge at onestoppoetry.com

She pauses to peer within

Her Sunday, self-reflective stroll, view anew

An equinox visit to the fruit of her womb

The untamed offspring, her living miscarriage

They’ve long gone for umbilical freedom

Runaways in their own home

           Longing for separation of self

           Their sentence : Cellular Mitosis

Nests, temples, scraping sky

Fences, walls, chalet bungalow

An Igloo, An Izba

Monastery Asylums

                Faux Châteaus

Up for adoption, the un-adaptive

Fat orphans consumed resource, sans remorse

How coarse, how crude, yet the starving resumed

Unable to find place, a space, in time

Any theory

Any relativity

Given chlorophyll, failure to synthesize;

           A trade for chloroform, to anesthetize

As she placates to absorb and transform energy

               None resonate

 In the Queen’s court, stubborn they stand

Child’s own judge, jury, and defendant

By the gavel of free will

          Incarceration by choice

Her whisper, subtle yet strong on the wind

Warm, soft spoken global warnings

Climate dinner gone cold

          With the season, tides and disposition

She turns,

and leaves.

"See the animal in his cage that you've built

...Are you sure which side of the glass you are on?"

-Reznor