As afraid as always
Evolution is crawling from the sea
Alive with urgency like suicide, like suicide
Convinced the grass is greener on dry earth

The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough muffled murmur
Sneaking through the lecture hall
The crawl across the island
The sound of wave's embodied water sprouting legs as loud as a gallop
Cuffing down on ground against the cries of gravity

All the young people who took a leap without faith
Into a riverbed that drowns about as much as it saves
All the young cowards acting out for the brave forever hurled
Into the waters of their indifferent graves

Belly-up, half buried in the sand
Extend a hand to the smallness of death
Understand that only dying is this colossal
Creation shedding skin to find a perfect equilibrium like fossils
For a million years, raise your glass in cheers
We will never answer where we came from only how we got here