--From Clay and Stars

From Tărtăria’s ancient clay
To Sumer’s written dawn
We seek the roots of humankind--
Where have our spirits gone?

Did hands of gods or distant stars
Shape us from the dust?
Or did the patient Earth alone
Evolve us as it must?

We walk on two, we gaze above,
We ponder good and ill;
In matrix dreams and waking fears
We search for strength and will.

Through questions deep, through stories old,
We wander and we learn--
That truth is found in open minds
And hearts that always yearn.