I am Prehistory

• Artist: Atheshya
• Description: One of my first poems.
• Date: 07/21/2008
• Tags:

I am prehistory – what I have seen
People speculate but they do not know
“All those crazy fishes – what do they mean?
“How does it work and why?” they sadly crow.

If only they knew the world’s great past
When fish first crawled on to land
Long before humans swept away the proud last
of ancient creatures with their callous hand.

If only they could realize it is bad
To have destroyed the quagga and dodo.
As well as the mammoths – It makes me mad!
And they just sit and drink their hot cocoa.

If only you could go extinct about now
Or at least follow peaceful ways like Tao.

Realize that the earth’s not 6,000 years old!
Just go back 500 million years ago
There was life there, dwelling in the sea’s cold
For all you know, there’s a fish shaped like a Lego.

If only you could climb a strange kind of rope
Taking you to the dinos you adore
You look at what you want, and I can hope
You get eaten by a tyrannosaur!

If only you could see the latest era
Witness the age of mammals! (And big birds)
Find a monkey you like and name her Sarah.
And see humans, the first to invent words.

And if only you could come back to my
Sweet, sweet Archean before you all die.

Comments

[Sincerely Metalhead]

This speaks a powerful truth that people so often ignore now-a-days. Also, dinosaurs were cool.

[Atheshya]

A quagga was a member of the horse and zebra family that has been described as a 'zebra that decided to be a horse midway through'. It's sad that they're extinct now.

[SilvertongueSagittarius]

wow, kitten cracked a dictionary. finally someth8ing me and him can agree on, i too love alliteration. btw, Ivana, whats a Quagga?

[HUMIDIFIER]

i like this because it's like having a well-written conversation. personifying prehistory in such a prolific way panders to the okay i really ran out of alliteration. i like the rhyme scheme and the way that it doesn't seem like you forced them out as if by rule. please continue to post excellent poetry at the restrained two-per-day max.

[SilvertongueSagittarius]

exelent. supurb rhymong and an odd subject matter. way 2 go. 4 and a favoritizm