West Of Rome / new poems 2011

Coevals (Animal Brain, Human Heart)

My childish thoughts
linger,

of revenge, of envy,

coexist
with the more intellectual
sense of satisfaction,
capacity for forgiveness,

though they wrestle
about the room
knocking over
furniture
of the
soul,

as the animal brain grins
and the human heart frowns,

self-actualization left stranded
somewhere in the wilds between the two,

enduring these coevals
on its slow ascent
to higher ground.