Birds from the sky
Fish from the sea
Deer from the land
The blood knows
The bones remember
The breath flies
Beauty dies.
People walk by
Dumb as flies.
They're only beasts
(Like us)
They're only creatures
Like us, with the right
To live and thrive.
Soon now time
Will turn back on itself
Like a curling wave
Carrying us down
To a watery grave.
How did we get here?
People will say
The lesson speeding by
Unnoticed, unrecognized
To be relived on other
Worlds, in other times.