NEOWISE

Last time you made a visit
was our dawn
Just learning
to scatter seeds into soil
to gather into settlements
to scratch our thoughts into stone...
To be "civilized"

Look at us now as you pass by again --
Billions of tiny
insignificant lives
still scrabbling in the dirt
gathering in our tribes
wrting thoughts with our thumbs now
but none of them new....

Have we developed
in any of the ways that count?

Come check on us again
in another 6,000 years
Maybe then we'll have it
figured out