all the bright torches
myth & meaning downloaded,
stored in light
…who
would have us still
dancing the ancestors’ dances,
even as the young ones
grow closer to their machines
leaving skin behind,
thought beamed into steel & plastic,
beyond the crude substitution
of clockwork for meat,
or chips in flesh
…all the bright torches
to illuminate the way,
each alone in the fog,
each a part
of everything else