Collection: The Creatures We Inherit

 

The Creatures We Inherit

They live beneath the language of skin Remembered without knowing
Passed down in silence Carried in gesture, not memory
An echo felt, not heard They hum beneath the surface
Born of others’ aching Still breathing, still watching
They wait in the quiet body These are the creatures we inherit
They move when you don’t They are not ours to control
Not summoned, but inherited But they live through us anyway
They do not resemble us Not fully seen, not easily named
But always there