We’ve drawn water from stone
Drained to drive the powers
That fuel us to our best.

We’ve channeled great completions
Conquered constellations
Made pillars built on mist.

We’ve built mighty machinations
Treaties that combined nations
At just the raising of a fist.

We’ve solved countless problems
That the world’s placed under us
Passed each impossible test.

We’ve celebrated grandest gods
Cast confetti from the heavens
In many a great fest.

We’ve built boundings over oceans
Expanded the world with just pens
Far beyond just our small nest.

‘Cause it’s our duty to evolve
From small cells, challenge insignificance,
With each thump of our breast.

And it’s our vast legacy to make
Designs too heavy to comprehend
Numbering too many to list.

But yet, all that notwithstanding
Not one’s grandeur will caress
As your soft tips do on my chest.

And no mighty bomb we’ve ever dropped
Has made a greater blow
Than two lovers when they kissed.

And no megalith has ever toppled
A solemn whisper from a friend
Or a soft breeze from the west.

So even now, after aeons of evolution
There still stands the thought
The thought I can’t resist.

That no matter the burden, it still is
The simplest things
That make us happiest.

15.XI.24