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 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 glass We will never answer where we came from For a million years raise your glass in a cheer We'll never answer where we came from 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 --- Palms Read - Protest the Hero