Laboratory confirmation
my dueling personas,
seafaring-Norse explorers
daring warriors, plunderers
adventure-seekers
fused with diaspora refugees
tenacious, plundered, wary
‘chosen ones’

genetic certainty elucidates
innate predilections to
roam with jaunty impunity
revel in ambiguities

my explorer’s eye
for risk-taking
tempered by well-honed
wry skepticism of faith,
clashing with exploits
sans piety, blithely
eschewing atonement

disparate impulses
enjoined; the time is nigh,
to engender the foe!

Where are we going?
Aren’t we there yet?

– Mark L. Lucker
© 2017
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