Four Billion Years Ago Today

We, these words, are mere bodies
Failing life in some respect,
Inactive participants,
Participants nonetheless.

Language is self-creation
For animal flesh, but what
Are languages for ourselves?

How do we identify?
How can meaning understand
What it is to mean itself?

Maybe we can’t. We aren’t life
Disabled. We could be life
About to start, that moment
Just before life, fecund rocks.