I Am Human

I am human

I am not the beginning

Nor the end of it.

Evolution did not begin with me

nor am I so arrogant

As to presume that I, Human as I am,

Will represent the final flowering,

The culmination of creation.

I am human.

I was not created so. Though it is so written.

Creation is not so constrained by written words.

I am an inheritor of the genes of my ancestors

and some of them were human too.

I am a brush stroke among many in creation’s

Masterpiece, and not its canvas or its frame.

I am human,

Descendant of the first life to flower

In this small part of creation's garden.

I am not alone in having words

I am not alone in having love

I am not alone in knowing creation.

I am simply human.

Kim Helen James
26/2/2019