Moonscapes draw shadows 'cross rooftops,
landscaping lives of living
shadows – people cycling through days
of sun-kissed projections
of the lives they aren’t living –
they cast sideways
glances, projecting their
insecurities on those
producing dreams
of families loving families –
productivity for a society
united by a philosophy
of love thy neighbor,
Christian
Muslim
Hindu
Shinto
Buddhist atheist, agnostic
anarchists of monogamist polygamist
sexist feminist, misogynist –
all masochists,
their insecurities eating
does of anxiety
for breakfast before facing days
overcast by self-doubt, wondering
when Darwinism will subliminate
ignorance, uniting a mixed race
born in honorable collaboration
to create communities
of families loving families
whose foundation
seeps honesty into the roots
of the air
we breathe.