We forget

We forget that there are still shepherds

And myths that are not lies.

We forget that people still dance in the dirt

To understand the message of the skies.

We forget that children

Are the most important things in life.

We forget that life must be lived

Before we can hope understand it.

We forget that nature owes its workings

To the guts of termites.

We forget that we are the inventions

Of randomness.

We forget how hard an oak must work

To live out its century.

We forget stars are not eternal

So God has been evicted.

We forget how relentlessly love

Asks of us the impossible.