Sober Monkey
Perceiving passersby in strange fur
Hearing words of science and fiction
Touched on things it hoped would occur
Left its senses, makes a prediction
To share with all the others-
How great someday they would be-
Like their strange-furred brothers-
And swinging from a tree…
Now behold the Sober Monkey
Nothing’s like it thought it would be
Looked at us with dreams of higher
Conceived its seed human destiny
Now behold the Sober Monkey
Nothing’s like it thought it should be
Pride no more, set its dreams on fire
Never to be human ancestry
A new creation of evolution
Breaking walls of science and nature
A race that’s one needing no absolution
Visions flood like deluges of grandeur
Deceiving all of the others-
While deluding its own mind-
But if they had their druthers-
Would be one with humankind…
Now behold the Sober Monkey
Nothing’s like it thought it would be
Looked at us with dreams of higher
Conceived its seed human destiny
Now behold the Sober Monkey
Nothing’s like it thought it should be
Pride no more, set its dreams on fire
Never to be human ancestry
© September 4, 2002 @ 1:00 AM by J. “Xakk” Marshall