Palms Read

As often as always Evolution comes crawling from the sea Alive with the urgency like suicide, like suicide Convinced the gra*s is greener on dry earth The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough Muffled murmur sneaking through the lecture hall They crawl across the island Sound of waves Embodied water Sprouting legs, loud as gallop All the young people Who took a leap with no faith into a riverbed That drowns about as much as it saves Slowing down on the ground Against the cries of gravity Crawling on, 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 the perfect equilibrium like fossils All the young people Who took a leap of no faith All the young cowards acting out All the young cowards acting out For the braves forever hurled Into the waters of their indifferent graves For a million years raise your gla*s We will never answer where we came from For a million years raise your gla*s in a cheer We'll never answer where we came from Only how we got For a million years raise your gla*s We will never answer where we came from For a million years raise your gla*s Only how we got here