During these years in which we learn that we are naked

These years

These somewhat seven million years

These years of untamed desire for forbidden fruit

These years of viral humanity

These years we have learned of our own intelligence

Cursed, “accelerating growth” intelligence

These years in which we have feared the years beyond

These years we have spent thinking of the years that we will never see

These years that keep us blind to the years that could be

Or could have been