The Substantial Ones
There is in the cadence
Of life’s unfolding events
A Rhythm as natural
As breathing,
Yet we count the skeletons
Of needless corpses,
Scan in sympathy too many
Mindless suffocations.
Who will write the closing lines
To the Ballad of Humanity?
Who will sing these Notes
Unchirped by Man?
Who are the Definers of Parenthesis?
Where are the Connoisseurs of Evolution?
Steven Caldwell Wright
