Ancestry

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If Mankind perished:

Exterminated cataclysmically

Like the dragon dinosaurs,

How long would our cities stand?

How long before our cars rusted

And buildings toppled,

To leave the odd dam or pyramid

Poking through the tangled jungle mass?

A few hundred years they say.

Then nothing.

All gone.

Yet have such holocausts

Blighted Man before

Back through those swirling mists of time,

Thousands of years ago?



Great civilisations built by clever men and women,

Only to be dashed to the ground

By who knows what.

Atlantis and much more.

Advancement cruelly culled.

For Man,

Like the world,


Is much older than we thought

Or think.

Some say that aliens helped us build

Those ancient wonders.

Yet maybe we should cast away this

Self – effacing view:

Acknowledge that

We did it all

Ourselves.

Paul Butters