He emerged from an undistinguished womb
Down a pathetic mutilated channel
Encased in sanguineous mucous
But unlike so many siblings
Had all appendages intact
Lips to suckle on nipples
Already deranged by uncouth greed
But his birth was miraculously different
Homo Europeaea Darkus
Clinging on to life after
Centuries of the dark middle ages
From Gaul to Siberia
The barbarians plundered and wasted
The intellect of descendants of Greece and Rome
The Pope’s of Avignon
Unable to halt the decline
Until his birth saw resurrection
Of ambition and vision
A climactic change from scorched earth
Rekindled shoots and souls
The near effete womb rejuvenated
Endometrial survival
Wholesome ripening to
Deliver the new man
Umbilical detachment to freedom
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Cellini
Attached by their essential neural networks
To Copernicus, Galileo, Newton
Giving rise to Descartes, Turing and Hawkins
Fighting demons you and I may never know
Elaborating Mozart, Byron and Picasso
All rejuvenating the senescent man
Their births defying
Darkness, giving cerebral lightness
And Homo Globus Stellar
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, 2018
