The New World

After the K-Pg event

The world was anything but silent
While it rebuilt itself around me
New formations of land rose and fell
Beloved dinosaurs standing no longer
Stuck in tar, unable to feed any more
I felt great loss all around me
Yet it was here I saw for the first time
The birds developed before my eyes
I heard their first chirps
Observing as they leapt
My breath caught in my chest
Upon their first soaring
The sky was blue and blood red
The fires had not yet calmed
Volcanic debris constantly scattering
Lava rocks began forming
It was an untamed land
Not yet ready for farming
We were still scavengers
Picking at scraps, the life
Left in the corpses
Where we found our sustenance
In what had been left behind
Not yet devoured
By the gaping hole
The broken earth
The unsteady ground
We walked on
It only felt as if the world had ended
But proof lay all around us
New creatures evolved from the ashes
New plant life
New ways for breathing, to take place
In a world no smaller
And blooming with ever more might
Resilience and strength
Our genetic lifelines
Passed down throughout time
Conveying the messages
We still need to survive