07-05-2023, 04:42 AM
Ancestors
who may have looked like me,
feeding fire with words,
chanting the names
of the sky god, moon god, wind god, and the one
who rides a black buffalo bringing death,
in youth I found you lame,
forebears ignorant of the sun’s
triple alpha breath,
polynucleotide chains, ATP
and the conflagration it brings.
But now my blood is tame,
the path still long, and the gods lie in wait
at the end of things.
who may have looked like me,
feeding fire with words,
chanting the names
of the sky god, moon god, wind god, and the one
who rides a black buffalo bringing death,
in youth I found you lame,
forebears ignorant of the sun’s
triple alpha breath,
polynucleotide chains, ATP
and the conflagration it brings.
But now my blood is tame,
the path still long, and the gods lie in wait
at the end of things.