I was not put here - (by anyone) By anyone in fear I came alone as me Just an idea In a long chain Of discovery Surrounded by the same - You Sometimes your tide Pulls me out to sea And I die In a trashing curse Sometimes we are kind More often I doze - So far up the beach That those who try to reach Are burnt alive In the searing heat Of the desert Of my dispassion So far removed I never hear the water 'Cept once or twice a month When I see a mirror And I refuse to believe In some of the things That are said to be here Let alone those That are not I'm trying to change My direction Ours is pathetic In my own humble estimation I love the planet The great bening she-wolf Benefactor Spinning gently on Towards the red giant Four aeons hence When all the rose gardens Are consumed in the flash-fire Of flying time She'll leave alone too