Volitional Chemicals

When had you your own will?
O not since life began.
Maybe when you were stone.

Stones didn’t choose to live,
Did they? Stones didn’t choose
Afflictions and visions,

Or maybe they did. How
Could gods have come to life?
Who started this business

Of hunger, waste, and souls?
Push the leggy fish back
In the brackish water,

It’s already too late.
How far back should you go
To block those chemicals?