To The Insects

[Joel Lyons]

Elders


we have been here so short a time
and we pretend that we have invented memory


we have forgotten what it is like to be you
who do not remember us


we remember imagining that what survived us
would be like us


and would remember the world as it appears to us
but it will be your eyes that will fill with light


we kill you again and again
and we turn into you


eating the forests
eating the earth and the water


and dying of them
departing from ourselves


leaving you the morning
in its antiquity



 
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