What if every life is a research assignment,

Crossbred with a game?

Our goal is to win,

And to win we are challenged to find out as much as we can

About the environment we have been born to?

The problem is

That we forget

That we are here to learn and experience.

We buy into the illusion of the backdrop,

And we get confused.

We think we are here to teach and

To express our particular made up experience,

Which is a distortion upon a distortion,

And thereby we confuse ourselves and others.

We encourage our own limitations, 

And those of whom we love,

Anyone, in fact, with whom we come in contact.

But what if we can see,

Every life is a Jane Goodall,

Where all we view is good and all is bad

And everything in between?

But what if we have come to play this game 

In the midst of the gorillas in the mist?

What if we take the time

To tame our own wild ego?

Maybe the promise is:

The game will get

A lot more interesting.

-jenn