Here’s a Horse

However unrewarding

It might have been to live it,

It’s such a gift, don’t you think,

To have been, to have lived life

Among the living who were

Laboring to find a way

To go on living or leave

Something behind them for those

Who’d be the next waves living?

We, the words you leave behind,

Imagine so, not being,

Ourselves, such living beings,

But you know that one word, gift?

Oddly social don’t you think?

The kind of thing you living,

Social beings consider

Crucial to successful lives—

Giving, getting gifts, gifting.

Life is not some human gift.

You can look life in the mouth.

What green teeth to eat you with.