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| Paleontologists at Dinosaur National Monument |
Some look to the past
as if reading fractured bones
can predict the future
better than tea leaves.
Looking for the footprint of God
Looking for the spark of life
Some pick and mold and touch
and smile with wonder
at the magnificent puzzles
left behind for us to solve.
of these bones
have the sentience
and think they could rule
their future world,
before the star bombs and volcanoes
tossed them again and again
choking their skies with ashes and dust?
Will looking into the past
save us from
the wars about to come
down around our ears
tossing bodies of man and child
and then
covering them/us in ashes and dust?
Is our future written in our past?
Is it too frightening for most to accept that we are only visitors in this universe?
i think it is neat because it connects us to a great expanse of time...i have always been fascinated with archeology....
ReplyDeletei think it is neat because it connects us to a great expanse of time...i have always been fascinated with archeology....
ReplyDeleteIt's a little spookey when you put it like that. ;)
ReplyDeleteVisitors of pilgrims, just passing through.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very thoughtful piece. We are lucky visitors here and we are destroying a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing our significance is in ourselves and not in our importance in the universe.
ReplyDeleteI've always known it is only the grace of God that allows me to be in this place n time, n have a family.
ReplyDeleteWe are all Dust in the Wind, as the Kansas song goes...
And brief visitors at that.
ReplyDeleteWe will be very brief visitors if we don't stop poisoning our air, water, dirt, and food.
ReplyDeleteNice and peaceable
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