Children's Game

In 1415 B.C., not so very long ago A common ancestor of all modern-day humans Walked this Earth A great great - many times great - grandparent of us all So it is said, by mathematical formula Calculating migrations, the pairing of man and woman Culture to culture, and continent to continent So we return, in time To ourselves, yet again We are the builders of the pyramids The setters of rune in ancient stone We, the forgers of iron and bronze We map the mountains and chart the seas We, all of us, look and have looked, in wonder The same starry sky remembering… Yet in vanquished blood we spill our brother-sister Hopes, year upon tortured year How vain to think that we are right and he-she Unlike us, and so like us, is all Together Wrong. ~ Laurence Overmire