Future Hammers
The heads of future hammers sleep
In ore buried deep in the mountain.
The handles of future hammers stand
In trees that grow on the mountainside.
What will join head and handle
One future day will be humanity’s
Need for yet another hammer,
A tool the purpose of which is to join
Two pieces of wood (also standing
In trees growing on the mountainside)
With a nail (also sleeping in ore
Buried deep in the mountain).
But no one in the valley ever thinks how
It is the mountain that shelters them,
Though they tell one another often
How very much they love their mountain.