If I am a traveler, come
to wander the earth
if a scientist meant
to catalog it all
if a butterfly born to taste
every flower’s nectar
If abundance
means this day
if I am the taster
swallowing some poison
meant for you
if a high powered microscope
to view things smaller than quarks
if a radio receiver built
to capture all the waves
if the woven blanket which
puffs the smoke-signaled message
from the sacred fires of ancient tribes
if a rocket ship of wonder meant
to visit every rock and star
in the Milky Way
if, after all, you would ask me
to interpret this hieroglyph
