These Hands We Use

These Hands We Use
© Surazeus
2024 03 29

These hands we use to manipulate time 
are secret of our ability to speak 
because we grasp with curiosity 
objects of material our eyes perceive 
so we can study nature of their being, 
then communicate thoughts our minds envision. 

As long-fingered cat leaping in dark woods 
I climb up giant sprawling web of vines 
to escape snarling jaws of mad-eyed wolf, 
and glide through trees one hundred million years, 
grasping limbs to feast on pungent fruit, 
then swing on vines to fly high without wings. 

Gliding through trees Guilin to Africa, 
we transform from cat to long-handed monkey 
able to grasp sticks and stones with strong thumbs 
which allows us to manipulate things 
while humming passionate joy in our hearts 
as we gather in dream cave by the sea. 

With stubby tail I cannot swing in trees 
so I descend to swim in swirling waves 
where I snatch wriggling fish with clenching fist 
then roast it over crackling flames of light 
while standing on two legs of confidence 
to reach my hands for untouchable stars. 

Dancing upright with divine breath of hope, 
we leap on two legs in shallow sea waves 
with buoyant passion of attentive faith, 
remaining tall with balance of two arms 
we spread as wings to walk on river shores 
when we explore horizon of our eyes. 

Plucking mushrooms from cow dung on flat plains, 
we eat sweet manna that sprouts after rain 
which beams conceptual visions of thought forms 
in pulsing sphere of rainbows in our eyes 
which conjures virtual model of the world 
that we express with humming breath of sound. 

With soft vibrating tones of phonic thought 
we designate each object we perceive, 
whole quality that defines measured being, 
and action we perform with conscious force, 
by speaking sentence of conceptual words 
in language we express with humming tongue. 

Through action of grasping things with our hands 
we invent with divine breath of conscious faith 
language binding objects with phonic sounds 
to act as metaphors that carry thought 
mind to mind so we can communicate 
intelligent wisdom through poetry.