If Mankind perished: <br />Exterminated cataclysmically <br />Like the dragon dinosaurs, <br />How long would our cities stand? <br />How long before our cars rusted <br />And buildings toppled, <br />To leave the odd dam or pyramid <br />Poking through the tangled jungle mass? <br />A few hundred years they say. <br />Then nothing. <br />All gone. <br /> <br />Yet have such holocausts <br />Blighted Man before <br />Back through those swirling mists of time, <br />Thousands of years ago? <br />Great civilisations built by clever men and women, <br />Only to be dashed to the ground <br />By who knows what. <br />Atlantis and much more. <br />Advancement cruelly culled. <br /> <br />For Man, <br />Like the world, <br />Is much older than we thought <br />Or think. <br />Some say that aliens helped us build <br />Those ancient wonders. <br />Yet maybe we should cast away this <br />Self – effacing view: <br />Acknowledge that <br />We did it all <br />Ourselves. <br /> <br /> <br />(W) and © PB 7\6\08 at c.01.30 AM.<br /><br />Paul Butters<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ancestry/
