Swimmer on the sea
Bobbing on the surface
Straining to see beyond the billowing waves
The ups and downs of life.
Cutting through the water
Currents push and pull
Far stronger than muscle, bone and tendon
Yet the swimmer struggles on.
This is the life of mankind
Struggling to make progress
Between the expanse above and the depth below
Unable to peer far into either.
Prejudice and politics spin us
Like the maelstrom and the eddies
Sweeping us away from logic and the course we set to travel
Fearing imagined monsters from the deep.
While Leviathan circles!