15.  The Way We Bare Our Teeth

I think maybe we were told

we never needed nobody

because that's the dirt

and grit that made

our bodies breathe.

But dirt can't think

and grit can't tame,

so Who claimed

the bow and its arrow,

seeking its mark

and scoping our hearts,

letting loose into our

very DNA?

They tell us no one

and nobody, but

maybe that's because

hurt gives birth to hurt,

and maybe it's better

to not think of the Hand

that loves us, only

the hands that take

everything as even

the animals are shamed

by the way we bare our teeth.