By Any Other Name | Silvia Kniss

Condición Humana

by: Alex Vidal Pérez

The recognition that mankind is all 

but powerful is not enough to satiate 

our fragile—and at times rotten—little 

egos.

We have become too consumed by smoke

screens of capitalism, by the sick and twisted  

grasp of technology to notice our missing

essence.

Deseo vivir en un mundo donde el ultimo

invento no requiera la explotación de

nuestros recursos naturales, la matanza

de nuestra tierra.

A world where man lives within trees and 

wind, rather than computers and artificial 

intelligence that plagues the society we

live in.

I wish we cared for our oceans with the same

frequency we go war—que nuestros espíritus 

se vuelvan uno con nuestra madre infinita y la

cuidemos siempre.

To love loudly, to fight loudly, to care loudly 

for our gentle Earth.

Alex Vidal Pérez is a senior Creative Writing major with minors in Publishing & Editing and Spanish Studies. On campus, he serves as the Social Media chair for SU Slam Poetry Club, and the Treasurer for ALAS, among other things. They enjoy writing about world issues, the mundane, reading about magical realism and anything by Gabriel García Márquez.