Palms Read — Protest the Hero

As often as always evolution comes crawling from the sea Alive with urgency 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 The crawl across the island, the sound of waves Embodied water sprouting legs as loud as gallop

All the young people who took a leap without faith into a riverbed That drowns about as much as it saves Cuffing down on ground against the cries of gravity

Belly-up, 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 a perfect equilibrium like fossils

All the young people took a leap of new 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 in cheers We will never answer where we came from Only how we got here