As often as always

Alive with the urgency like suicide, like suicide

Convinced the grass is greener on dry earth



The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough

Muffled murmur sneaking through the lecture hall

They crawl across the island



Sound of waves

Embodied water

Sprouting legs, loud as gallop



All the young people

Who took a leap with no faith into a riverbed

That drowns about as much as it saves



Slowing down on the ground

Against the cries of gravity



Crawling on, half buried in the sand

Extend a hand to the smallness of death

Understand that only dying is this colossal



Creation, shedding skin

To find the perfect equilibrium like fossils

All the young people

Who took a leap of no faith



All the young cowards acting out

All the young cowards acting out

For the braves forever hurled

Into the waters of their indifferent graves



For a million years raise your glass

We will never answer where we came from

For a million years raise your glass in a cheer

We'll never answer where we came from

Only how we got



For a million years raise your glass

We will never answer where we came from

For a million years raise your glass

Only how we got here