House Spider

Who were you before

houses: you who inherited

the earth?

In this it is

superfluous whether you evolved

or got created in

a garden:

your nature prevailed after

you were sent to

the wilderness,

then this artificial nature

where you now languish

lost in darkness, in

a corner.

What of the garden

where you almost had

life everlasting?

Does it still exist

for your kind; is

it still the earth’s

celestial place?

Are you invited back

with your original name:

just “spider”?

Our apology for ruminating;

we strive for knowledge

and ache for confirmations:

we humans.