The roles

The roles of our lives if we live that long

egg child adolescent adult senior - corpse

so an ovum takes on a sperm and evolves

into a child - babyhood - toddler - a kid

and then the biology kicks in - an ado

with all of the sexual complications

until at the middle of the twenties

one can feel semi-normal whatever or not

during adulthood you have ups- downs

all around and depending on your

economic status never truly static

because life isn't - that kind of smooth ride

for most - the one percent eliminated

and then the rest of us rich to poor

have the same fuss over love and unlove

whether trans bi hetero gay or lesbian

or the varieties in between - alas

rare have anyone had nothing to worry about

or if an occasionally so - he or she creates

problems of a minor to a major

But our roles of babies to old fogies

can change within a moment from 

one to the next company we keep or alone

humans are adaptable but frail 

and sometimes the weak or the strongest

there is not true role for the actor

we are reactors of our environment

heading into an accident - a reunion

the biology of the human will react

either bodily or with feelings - 

bleeding for boozing or dragging 

ourselves down or perhaps up the ante

it doesn't matter - we - people of the world -

will be a perpetual drop of humanity

hate love frustration obsession with colors

of all kinds and the sounding board 

around us called nature will react

to our stupidity and our unthoughtful ways 

so that one day tis world as we so call it

will vanish when our great great great

grandchildren are gone - they are away

we are away and the Gaia shakes herself

and starts humming and swinging again.