Toolish

The earliest generations with fire
Could not have predicted the earliest
Farmers supplanting their offspring’s offspring.

What incredible power, to control fire!
All other creatures fled in front of it.
The fiercest predators would flinch from it.

The earliest farmers with rich harvests
Could not have predicted the earliest
Chariots overrunning descendants,

The mines and trade routes for copper and tin,
And so on and so on. Control improved.
Prediction improved prediction as tool.

What incredible power, to predict well!
It would be, if you didn’t burn yourselves.