Mutuality
Not love
Not kindness
Not diffidence
I desire from most of my interactions
Some level of consideration
For the needs
Beyond the individual
I don't demand it
But I seek the company
Of those who keep it
At the top of the narrative stack
For to consider the consequences
And the piling up of value beyond one's oneness
Is to accept the essential herdiness
Of our strange mammalian humanity
And to see morality
Not as an outgoing religious faux compact
Not that those are necessarily outgoing
But as a requirement for conscious thought
A price to pay for perhaps only the illusion of free will
But even if it's an illusion
I'd rather live in a deluded world with some ethics
Rather than a world full of the micro leviathans
Trying to eat everything they can get into their grasps
Extending their reach through control
And so I'm here
To get along
And go a little bit further
And help along
Roman Ryan 