April 26, “Woke”

 

Awareness of desires and needs of others,

All humans are our sisters and our brothers,

To realize all life on Earth’s related,

And stardust our grandfathers and grandmothers.

 

We realize all life on Earth’s related,

One origin, a trillion times mutated,

Mutation, drift, and sometimes cruel selection,

This miracle that randomness created.

 

Mutation, drift, and then, of course, selection,

From variation having no direction,

Uncounted different species had their season,

Then humans, a three billion year confection.

 

Uncounted different species in their season,

Varieties, no seeming rhyme or reason,

One form of life evolved into another,

Creationists regard this all as treason.

 

One form of life evolved into another,

A finding that right wingers try to smother.

The data say that we must all awaken;

Your neighbor is your brother, not an “other.”

 

Biologists say we must all awaken

And tribalism ought to be forsaken.

Was Jesus “woke” when he said, “Love your neighbor?”

Do Trumpists think that Jesus was mistaken?