we must pull it together

these disparate pieces
of human civilization
we are humans

a species

but mostly we are
left-overs – left-out
of the actual race

search the memory of an angel
or the memory of the earth

for what was
long before what is

search deep inside of what is
for the seeds of what was

those vast empires of human energy
the knowledge of human life
when it was still young but
advancing in rapids

oh, the humanity
the beginning of
humanity

what is history?
who defines history?

and what is definition anyway?
but creating...boundaries

the captured
the contained
the caged
the constrained

so who defines us?

and the big question
the only question that matters

when will [us] ever be a big
enough word to contain everyone?