We are of the sea

and of the caves,

though

time

has rinsed us clean

of these dim

memories.


And yet we still long

to splash about,

ride the tumultuous waves,

and

explore dark spaces.


Yes, we have

forgotten whence

we came,

but

our desperate thirst for water—

our voracious appetite for meat—

and

our hideous capacity for violence—

abate not.