The Haiku Journal
Evolution
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back —A Poem in Haiku
Published in
Nov 28, 2020
thrust into the hunt
for succulent meat or fruit
we yearn for escape
taming plants and beasts
we toil all day in the fields
and thus are still trapped
mastering it all
we are ourselves thus enslaved
pursuing freedom
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