At Work On Earth For Several Thousand Years...
The Power Of Mother Nature...
Wind, Earthquakes, Photosynthesis, Reproduction
And The Power of Human Energy...
To Create, To Build, To Improve, To Nurture, To Elevate,
When We Reduce Ourselves To The Level
Of Our Animal Ancestors And Seek To Stalk,
Ambush, Invade, Rape, Kill Everything In Sight
We Using Up The Power Given Us By Mother
Nature That Put Us AtThe Top Of The Animal
Food Chain We Are Denying Ourselves The
Power Of Our Humanity, To Protect The Injured,
The Addled, The Weak, The Young, The Elderly...
The Connection/Relationship
Between The Human Energy
Created By Our Bodies, Our
Meat And Our Bones, And
The Human Energy That
Surrounds Our Planet...
This Is Why A Mother
Will Wake Up On The
East Coast When Their
Child Has An Incident
On The West Coast,
It Is What We Call Intuition,
Hunches, That Special
Connection With A "Soul Mate".
Created By Our Bodies, Our
Meat And Our Bones, And
The Human Energy That
Surrounds Our Planet...
This Is Why A Mother
Will Wake Up On The
East Coast When Their
Child Has An Incident
On The West Coast,
It Is What We Call Intuition,
Hunches, That Special
Connection With A "Soul Mate".
For Us Humans to Appreciate
Why We Are Here
And Where we Are Headed
We Must Have An Inkling
About What We've Been Doing
And How We Got This Far,
A Thing Called Humanity...
Odorless, Invisible, Intangible,
Has Fed Us And Fortified Us
As Has Mother Nature
As Has Mother Nature
And Has Silently, Inexcorably
Propelled Us To The Human World
That Is Now
That Is Now
Right Around The Corner
For Centuries Overdue,
For Centuries Overdue,
But That's OK,
We're Really Close Now...
We're Really Close Now...
It Is An Element That Has
Fortified Our Double-Helix
So That Our Body Weight
Wouldn't Continue To Crush Our Bones
When We Were Out Of The Water Too Long,
It Is What Propelled Us Through
The Many Stages Of Evolution
To The Honorable Empathetic Beast
Who Is Right Around The Corner,
It Is What Caused Us To Fight For Our Lives
It Is What Coaxed Us To Stand Up, To Reach,
To Climb, To Aspire, To Elevate,
It Is What Made Us Leave Each Stage
And Move On
From The Water To The Mud
Then Out Of The Muddy Hastily-Built
Temporary Burrows
Used By Our Rodent-Type Ancestors
For Escape From Killers Of All Kinds,
Into The Semi-Permanent Dens
Of Our Fisher/Martin/Wolverine Stage
When We Individualized, Protecting Ourselves
And Our Homes Viciously,
Cannibalistic in Crunch Times,
And Incredibly Efficient Killer Who
Worked And Lived Alone
And Gleaned All Food From Its Environment
This Is Where We Started
Standing, Reaching, Climbing
Towards The Next Stage In Our Plodding
Trek Towards The Human World
When We Went To The Trees
To Escape The Prides And Packs
That Would Invade Our Dens,
Sit On Us While They Ate Our Families
Finished Us Off, Sat Around
Picking Their Teeth With Our Bones...
Home Invaders.
Home Invaders.
We Were Fast And Smart
And Many Of Us Could Flee Up The Trees
A Fossa-Type Beast Developed
That Could Speed Through The Tree Tops
As Fast As A Squirrel
Was As Big As Wolverine
And A Spatial-Thinker Who Could
Set Up Ambushes...
Not Merely Waiting By A Water Hole
For The Slow-Witted Fodder,
But Setting Up The Taking Of
The Best Meat At The Front
Of A Fleeing Herd.
Here Is Where
A Major Part Of Our Future
Was Inflicted On Us...
FIRE...
It Could Sweep Through A Forest
And Wiped Out EVERYTHING,
Brought US Together
Reinforced the Preciousness Of Our Families
Especially Of Our Younger Generations
What Had Been Happening
Since We Left The Water
Was An Amphibian State
That Spewed 100's Of Eggs At A Time
That Spewed 100's Of Eggs At A Time
We Noticed Through Awareness That
The Size Of Our Broods,
The Size Of Our Broods,
Our Litters, As Well As
An Eventually Noticeable Lengthening
Of Our Gestation Terms
So From A Seemingly Uncaring Beast
To One To Whom
Our Children Had Become Priceless...
So Our Next Generations
Became Of the Utmost Importance...
Protecting Them Our Prime Purpose
Nurturing Their Lives Our Reason For Being
When Fire Eventually Chased Us From the Trees
We Came Down To Earth A Different Beast
An Individual Who Prized Community
Who Had Learned To Hunt Together
A Forward Thinker,
A Protector,
A Top Gun Hunter...
Who Put Crops In Rows In The ground
And Stood in Front Of Their Children
When Danger Approached,
Who Understood That All Members
Must Be Informed, Elevated, Honest,
As Well as Strong, Smart, Fast, Sharp, And Willing To Sacrifice Oneself For The
Community
Community
Since We Left The Water
And Progressed Toward
The Human World,
The Back Of Our Pack
That Refused To Progress
With The Humanizers
Has Always Advanced Forward
With the Rest
Or Died Off Of The Back Of The Pack
We Went To The Den
And The Last Of The Amphibious Rodents Disappeared,
Falling To Predators, Parasites, Natural Disasters
Being Pushed Off Of The Edge Of Cliffs
By The Crush Of Massive Hunger-Propelled Pack...
When We Went To The Trees
The Last Of Our Fisher/Martin/Wolverine Ancestors
Died Off Of The Back Of The Pack,
CHAPTER TWO
And When We Came Out Of The Trees
The Slower, The Dumber,
The Uninterested, The Rapacious,
Scared All Of The Time,
Every Minute, Every Second,
Of Spatial Thinking,
Of Honor For The Species,
Of Humanity,
And Like Any One Joining An Armed Forces-Type Outfit Today
They Were Rendered Bereft
` Haven't Yet Died Off Of The Back Of The Pack...
