Mamalian (51 of 366)

Day 51 of the 365 day poem challenge.

Word of the day mammalian meaning "Any of various warm- blooded vertebrate animals"

Mammalian 

We breath 

We eat

We lie

Our lungs expand and shift 

Under the weight of souls

They are poorly fitted to these

Forms 

Why so easily tethered

Why not free

Why so restricted to the patterns

Of the earth and seasons 

When we now touch the sky

And write worlds 

Worlds of such wonder

And we have created magic

But are forever impotent to use it

Finally our skins sag away

Like snakes we scuttle off

Into the ground 

And we are wet logs

Awaiting the grand exhalation 

Of the dying earth.