That that gives us our power, our spark
taken for granted what millenia has given
we have climbed to such heights and conquered such an unruly globe
in each of us lies the secrete, the essence of how we have been made
embedded in our codes, each of us with this striking skill
at each passing eon connections formed, with every member of our family in tow
Speak, how we became this mind with feet
our walks of great distance were not in silence
each mile a new stage
a stage upon which a new dance was performed and with each passionate step our very core emerged
Listen as we engorge our neurons further
With all the stores still told, the mountains of pages upon which we record
Speech in all its glory
Language our greatest gift
For what are humans without language?
Of all our many tools, none so skillfully used
Each new epiphany owing to our original mastery
Every ounce of life we know,
what we call ... ****
begins in this communication,
continues in eloquent words of endless knowledge retold
what can be said of human beings, only everything
for what else are we but ceaseless speech
a cascade of words
vast elaborations upon which we have built our way of life
to be human is to speak
and to speak was to become human