We Are Here

Lives pulsing

moving

gyrating frantically

to the beat

the rhythm of a

heart knitted

stitched together by

time

by the ages

by need of man to

defend against massive

drooling beasts

in untamed forests

by philosophers with

white beards and sharp

eyes whose thoughts

spun law from chaos

by steadfast architects

with hardy hands

and concrete callouses

who purified

molded earth like tiny

mortal gods

sentient termites

ensuring with labor

the growth

the continuity

of our Hill

Workers

Soldiers

Queens and Kings

appointed by the

milling masses

or festooned by

bloody battle

we are

individualized yet

categorized

magnified and

classified

a culmination of

millennia in millions

of lives unraveling

and expanding

beside one another

building and evolving

coalescing light so

bright

from space

we form our own

boldly burning

stars.