Maw

How many bodies can cram
Within the circumference
Of a single, expanding soul?

This is what one body asks,
Caught reading the news again,
Body with a suspicion,

Sneaking suspicion, a bad
Feeling, that there’s only one
Soul for all humanity,

One grown from all the bodies,
Billions of bodies by now,
That it has had to swallow.

How great can it grow, that soul?
That soul is out of control.