Day Twenty-Two: The Human Epic

We and the world are mostly water, similar

Percentages, by about 9%. The distance around

The earth is almost 25 thousand miles. If we

All walked in one direction, we would circle

It five times before we died.

When I run my fingers down your face and

Touch nineteen million skin cells. When

I say “I love you,” it is the combined work

Of seventy two muscles and several years from our lives.

Once, we were single-celled organisms,

For only half an hour—a time which would

Burn about 75 calories if we were having sex. If

This were the case, for that same half an hour we

Would have joined 100 million other people.

I will never taste you with the same buds for

More than ten days. All we can do is

Remember, and experience anew.

Maybe that’s why I never get tired of you,

Or this.

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This poem kind of sucks, but I have a great idea for the future based on this.

 

Basically, the muse comes and goes, but I have something to work on when it’s back.