Creatures

Their bodies, beautiful and remarkable machines of flesh and bone,
Blood and muscle and sinew.
Their minds, powerful, magickal engines of endless thought,
Endless beauty, endless destructive power.
They struggle
And scamper
And wriggle about.
And don't seem to make it anywhere at all.
Humans...
Such a small and insignificant-sounding word
For everything we are and everything we will be.
-Composed 6/17/2002