“Ladder”

I've got brains

like antique floors

I built each one

on the one before

I use all three

but they don't agree

One of them

wants to love you

Another one

would love to club you

I guess my old natures

move like glaciers

The fish became a lizard

The shrew became an ape

Will the ape become an angel?

The higher that we climb

The more the ladder sways

I'm the bastard child

the one who got

the head of Einstein

and the soul of Pol Pot

there's no compassion

but I can split the atom

Better give me a microscope

for a different eye

Better give me a telescope

for the inward sky

and a ladder leading

up from Eden

The fish became a lizard

The shrew became an ape

Will the ape become an angel?

The higher that we climb

The more the ladder sways

If Ramana Maharshi

came from clay

there's more to evolution

than a little DNA

Cut off the moorings

to the inward ark

Aiming it into

a question mark

The fish became a lizard

The shrew became an ape

Will the ape

become a Mother Teresa?

She came from clay

There's more to evolution

than a little DNA