Cave Paintings

Deep within the cave
Under rock
Where everything’s been swept
Our shadows dance
Against walls of caves where we sang our slang and slept
Cave Paintings
All the symbols we’re creating
Disagreeing on the meaning-making
By the stars we’re navigating
Cave Paintings
The way the ochre stains the rock
I trace a line until it stops
Mind displayed upon the stone
With all the stories that our parents told
Of where the food was starved upon the plains
Cave Paintings
All the symbols we’re creating
Disagreeing on the meaning-making
By the stars we’re navigating
Cave Paintings
The wonder of you all
Handprint negatives on the wall
The jokes that we all told
When we lived to tell the tale
And the children playing echoes around the cave
Cave Paintings
All the symbols we’re creating
Disagreeing on the meaning-making
By the stars we’re navigating
Cave Paintings