I sat in the hot spring
With monkeys in Japan.
Reduced by their wisdom,
I sank down in the water
and thought about Mankind.

The order of the jungle
Holds like gravity.
For the monkeys there
Have no confusion,
No delusions of grandeur
Or inferiority complexes.

They are perfect without trying
Or training,
And at peace,
Unless they are caught
And put in a cage
Or a circus.

-jenn