12/04/2024
Words Left by Humanity
in the Time Capsule
Sometimes we gave water to our neighbors.
Sometimes we didn’t hunt each other.
Sometimes our fathers were not
brought out back and told to kneel
until they kissed the earth they swore
they once belonged to.
Sometimes there was bread and milk on the tables
And sometimes
we remembered
There was no such thing as someone else’s mother;
There was no such thing as someone else’s child.
Sometimes we remembered when we said you
We meant the part of me I have not yet met.
Sometimes, when the fires died, it was dark enough.
We walked out and we looked up and we saw it:
The starlight, the starlight that had made us.
…
~Joseph Fasano
