a life spent looking up

Ki te kaahore he whakakitenga ka ngaro te iwi

I like to imagine a Neandertal Einstein
A visionary sculptor shaping the face of humanity
The centre of our universe
History their biography.

I like to speculate on the likelihood of meeting them
Homo sapiens sapiens sapiens wya?
Maybe I bumped shoulders with the intellectual titan carrying humanity forward
Maybe ‘really smart human’ would be a more accurate labelling.

Te amorangi ki mua, te hapai o ki muri

No building stands without four walls
But it’s so much more interesting
To dream of the locomotive
Rather than the engine.

We dehumanise overly successful ‘individuals’
Because it’s so calming to create a category of your own to win.
When we take out the uniter of Eurasia type ‘individuals’, I’m actually the greatest ever
Alexander the
ok.

Maybe I misinterpret mythologisation?
My own tendency to isolate the human within ‘the superhuman’
Could be a diﬀerent side of the same arrogant coin.
Maybe the establishment of ‘the superhuman’ is just a humble concession to human limits.

I don’t want to be realistic
Lazy hubris ﬁlled idiot I am,
I’d rather go the way of Icarus
Than never ﬂy.

He mahi te ataa noho, e kii ana te wheke Kaua
e mate wheke mate ururoa