Emergent

The definitions of

what is good and what is bad

shared by the human race,

the values we take from granted:

that help is good

and violence is bad

and plenty is good

and stupid is bad,

they are factors emergent.

But they are assumed to be absolute

because among the aeons they have taken

to distill out of the countless

efforts, trials, failures, celebrations, and strifes

of the evolutionary pilgrimage,

our historical memory is but a static dot

within the long, long unfolding of

our good and our bad.