I haven't read as much as some Concernin' man, and where he's from. So I ain't fixed, I calculate, My own belief to demonstrate For and ag'inst and pro and con On evolution, and so on. My good old mother and my dad Was all the scientists I had; And, as for books, they stuck to one Regardin' how the world begun, And, when I asked 'em that or this, Referred me back to Genesis. Well, maybe they was wrong about The way creation started out; But I don't recollect they spent A lot of time in argument Concernin' how the human race First come to settle in the place. To them what seemed to matter more Was mostly where we're headed for, Not what we was but what we'll be In life and in eternity -- Not where we come from, me and you, But rather where we're goin' to. No matter where we started at, If man or monkey, fish or bat, We're here, it doesn't matter how. The most important question now Is how we read our title clear, And where we evolute from here. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAMPUS SONNET: BEFORE AN EXAMINATION by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ECSTASY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON HEGIRA by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON QUESTION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO MAY HOWARD JACKSON - SCULPTOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON POSSUM SONG (A WARNING) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON DE LITTLE PICKANINNY'S GONE TO SLEEP by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |