Wildes Writing

Tim Wildes

Peoplekind – unbound and inordinate.

There is no clear drive for us other than our own animalistic impulses or learned vanities.

Regardless, we are a social creature.

Empathy sponsors us – our greatest advisor.

There is a sheen in the small acts of fraternity that bespeak us kin.

The bid of a stranger’s cigarette.

The quick smile from another on the road after meeting their gaze.

These simple interactions are integral to the human experience, to go without is alike isolation.

Fondness too, is built by meaningless ritual.

When we sit together doing nothing at all.

When we brush our teeth together, this night and the last.

Art by Bea Loewen