the truth in nature that we most like to deny
is the truth of nature that our own evils decry
the secret best hidden while sitting in plain sight
the secret worst heeded that creates today’s plight
yet within almost every home or in neighborhoods each day
once more the public secret is naturally on display
all cats know all cats are cats, all dogs, they know this, too
so say all the species of this place, excepting it seems, me and you
shall we call upon Occam’s razor or perhaps on Newton’s declarations
regardless, get the same outcomes, the ego giving offended protestations
as with any diamond truth, disbelief does not the universe reshape
as with all who lived before, disbelief is stamped within every human ape
so then, what great progress, what brilliant future have humans made
by delusional insistence that we are “more” or that we “control” displayed
what control upon our biosphere, depleted, shorn, and tattered
what more might have we done, what control should have mattered
humans are no apex species, much more a nadir of destructive seed
that abuses, that consumes, that destroys, regardless of future need
while every, single, day, humans encounter humbler, quiet proofs
within the beings who share our lives and live beneath our roofs
all cats know all cats are cats, all dogs of dogs, all but me and you,
what might the future become were we to as fully know this, too