HUMAN NATURE

By Obed Yadzo — Lilbed Wordweave

We are born crying—
a sound that shakes the air like thunder,
announcing that another fragile miracle
has fallen into the chaos of breathing.

We are dust, ancient and restless,
but we carry galaxies in our veins.
We stumble through time pretending we are steady,
pretending the world is ours to keep.

We build cities out of our fears,
write laws to cage the storms inside us,
invent love to heal what reason cannot reach.
Yet beneath our glittering inventions
we remain wild—half light, half wound.

We chase beauty as if it will save us,
but even beauty breaks.
A flower blooms for a second, and we call it eternity.
A smile fades, and we write poems to keep it from dying.

We are contradictions dressed in skin—
the saint and the sinner,
the creator and the destroyer,
the dreamer and the beast.
We speak of peace while sharpening our tongues like knives.
We promise kindness then crucify what we fear.

Still, we reach for each other.
In the middle of storms, in hunger and heartbreak,
we keep reaching.
Something in us believes that light is real—
even when darkness wins the argument.

We build homes out of memories,
bury pain in laughter, and call that survival.
We love people who will hurt us
and forgive people who won’t remember our names.
We make art so we can remember who we almost became.

The world moves fast—screens glow brighter than the sun,
voices drown in noise,
and yet a child still looks at the sky and asks,
"Why is it blue?"
That question alone proves hope still breathes.

We are fragile, but there is glory in our breaking.
We are small, but our hearts still hold oceans.
We are temporary, but every heartbeat is a universe,
every act of mercy a spark that defies extinction.

Human nature—
a paradox of dust and fire,
of cruelty and compassion,
of destruction and rebirth.

And maybe that’s what makes us beautiful:
that we are never finished.
We keep falling, rising, and falling again—
each time closer to becoming something whole.

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Human Nature poem by Obed Yadzo, Lilbed Wordweave. Deep poetry about humanity, soul, light, compassion, and resilience. Published across Ghana, USA, UK, Nigeria, Kenya, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, India, and other nations. Shared via Google Blogger to inspire human connection worldwide.