How Human We Are Poem by Jim Yerman

When you look around at the progress we’ve made, as a species we’ve come very far.
Look at the amazing things we can do that make us forget how human we are.

I’ve seen those spy thrillers on TV, you know where a satellite is twirled
And they can tell what a person is eating on the other side of the world.

Governments can surreptitiously enter our airwaves and somehow interface
With all our communications and exit without leaving a trace.

We can program bombs to drop where we want...our phones are now super smart
We can give people new prosthetic limbs, new faces, new organs...new hearts.

We can send satellite’s to the heavens, to Venus, to Mars and Neptune
We can fly faster than the speed of sound and even land a man on the moon.

I order from Amazon and I swear immediately after I hit send
I can hear the UPS truck carrying my package coming around the bend.

So how, in this age of technology, can an entire plane go astray
Without anyone having some answers...How can this happen today?

I bought a pair of Tom’s shoes on line. I love their concept, the feel, and once more
I can track those shoes from the warehouse until their delivered to my front door.

I was tracking them the other day while watching the evening news.
Experts were talking about Flight 370 and sharing their different views...

I thought to myself how peculiar this all is...how utterly insane
I know where my shoes are at any moment while they’ve lost an entire airplane.

Sometimes we forget we are only human that we don’t control everything near and far
It takes a natural disasters or a Flight 370 to remind us how human we are.