Palms Read

As often as always
Evolution comes crawling from the sea,
Alive with the 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 halls,
That crawl across the island,
The sound of wave's embodied water sprouting legs as loud as a gallop.

All the young people who took a leap without faith
Into a riverbed that drowns about as much as it saves,
Cuffing down on ground against the cries of gravity.

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.

All the young people who took a leap without faith
All the young cowards acting out
All the young cowards acting out for the brave forever hurled
Into the waters of their indifferent graves.

For a million years, raise your glass
We will never answer where we came from
For a million years, raise your glass
Only how we got...

For a million years, raise your glass
We will never answer where we came from
For a million years, raise your glass
Only how we got here.