Fossilized -

Four and a half million years ago

The earth was lifeless and new

Life forms starting to appear

And fossils are the clues

Slowly migrating from the sea

To one day dominate the land

Early reptilians had evolved

Millions of years before man

Unchallenged masters of their world

One hundred forty million year reign

Reptilian gods stalking the earth

Undisturbed primal and serene

Mountains of flesh shaking the ground

Armored like a living tank

While our ancestors rodent-like

Trampled underfoot

Our minds can’t conceive the forms of life

That have lived here before us

On the sites where our cities sprawl

Herds grazed and continued to evolve

Man’s time on earth is barely a blink

Of the eye of time

Our destination is written in bones

And our predecessors fossilized

No seven day miracle created our world

From the void delivered

We have only just learned to walk

Once we had to slither

Our kind will vanish as did theirs

Leaving only traces entombed

Till those who follow unearth our remains

What will their studies conclude?

Engine of death in its highest form

Carnivore evolved to perfection

Modern predators so insignificant

Up against this tyrant king

What catastrophe fell from the skies

Ending their domination?

Wiped off the face of the earth

Not one survived extinction

Man’s time on earth is barely a blink

Of the eye of time

Our destination is written in bones

And our predecessors fossilized