The  Ascent

Creation
Foundation
Re-creation
What remains the same
What changes

We cycle through
We break the cycles
Or they’re broken
For us

Inventions all around
Adaptations
Also what is newly made
With materials of Earth
Sometimes of us
The controversy

What might we interject
Though we haven’t changed a generation
On our own
Except in that
We have more things
Sometimes for more time
And then fill the time with
Pursuits
Playful
Progressive
Or vainglorious

Are we stages
Phases
Headed toward a final place
A seeing place
A hearing place
A place to touch
And on
Which could be battlefield
Or a launching platform
To meet divinity’s wider hand
As we are
Able
Having chosen virtues
Carefully
And as a better planet’s people
A world
That we made better
Also
Maybe first
In
And of ourselves

C L Couch


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