Heard this one yet? A favorite of mine

Lute Music
 
 by Kenneth Rexroth
 
 
 The Earth will be going on a long time
 
 Before it finally freezes;
 
 Men will be on it; they will take names,
 
 Give their deeds reasons.
 
 We will be here only
 
 As chemical constituents—
 
 A small franchise indeed.
 
 Right now we have lives,
 
 Corpuscles, Ambitions, Caresses,
 
 Like everybody had once—
 
 
 Here at the year's end, at the feast
 
 Of birth, let us bring to each other
 
 The gifts brought once west through deserts—
 
 The precious metal of our mingled hair,
 
 The frankincense of enraptured arms and legs,
 
 The myrrh of desperate, invincible kisses—
 
 Let us celebrate the daily
 
 Recurrent nativity of love,
 
 The endless epiphany of our fluent selves,
 
 While the earth rolls away under us
 
 Into unknown snows and summers,
 
 Into untraveled spaces of the stars.
 
 
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