Title: Biggest Lottery
Form: poem
Language: en
Canonical URL: https://pembaumoja.com/en/poems/biggest-lottery

They came in all shapes and sizes
from planets big and small
ringed and unringed
visible and invisible

This was
after all
the biggest lottery in the universe.

What a fabulous chance!

A once in an eternity opportunity!

To be human for a lifetime

That's it.
The ultimate prize

To have flesh
To feel
To want
To taste

To walk barefoot in human feet
on grass, water, sand, earth

Who would want such a thing?

Everyone, everywhere.

All creatures who have forgotten to feel

All creatures who have never known how

The queue is long

It extends from one end of the universe to the other.
