Protest The Hero

As often as always evolution comes crawling from the sea
Alive with urgency like suicide convinced the grass is greener on dry earth
The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough
Muffled murmur sneaking through the lecture hall
The crawl across the island, the sound of waves
Embodied water sprouting legs as loud as gallop
All the young people who took a leap without faith into a riverbed
That drowns about as much as it saves
Cuffing down on ground against the cries of gravity
Belly-up, half buried in the sand
Extend a hand to the smallness of death