She explained it to me this way:
god put the world together
and afterwards added men
then women from dust
filled both with blood, organs
brains
and put souls inside
among veins, tissues,
water – seventy five percent I’m told –
and after all that humans were complete
ready to be judged by their creator
invisible as she may be
I have seen many things
become full
the cemeteries are brimming
the insane asylums
the hospitals
the women’s shelters
the men’s shelters
the youth shelters
wars fill the earth
the prisons are filled
the bellies of Americans are
brimming
the landfills are all at
capacity.
and I have come to realize that
this is the only singular fate humanity
will ever know
everything fills up
but nothing else does