Thread by @ravensspirit68

1-By Jacob Nordby
I don’t know how humans got here
Probably not a garden and a snake
Or a rib and angels
And whatever
I don’t know how our brains became machines
Always calculating ways
To take things or each other
And destroy or at least use them
You know?

As if somehow we aren’t part of everything
Don’t need all of it
And each other
Just as much as air
Or food or the blood in our hearts & veins

But I do know how my father’s hands looked
Holding my little sister
When she was born
Like some fragile thing made of
Light & silk & dragonfly bones

I’ve seen how people in love
Their eyes you know
How that is when they
Look at each other

Or when after some terrible loss
Has happened
People hold each other
Like they are the last life rafts
Anywhere and it matters
How you walk on this earth
And need this place
Need the ones you love
More than food or a house
Or anything else

I think that maybe I don’t need to know
Everything anyway
Except that love is real
Realer than death or distance
And sometimes all I need to do
Is just stand here
Under the gaze of trees much older
Than any of us

And remember how it is
Too long for what isn’t yet and maybe
Never will be
Maybe the touch of a hand warm at night
Is more real and good
With the wind cold outside
Than all of anything else
We’ve thought of before

Perhaps whatever you call home
Is the thing after all
Calling you back to it
No matter what far lonely places
You’ve ever been
Saying along with the ancient stars
If they could speak
That you’re here for now
And matter

Yes you do as much but not more
Than the crow that just landed in its nest
Right over there...