Origins - Upon the Bottom Shelf At the Library

Further down passed my own chilling past I stumbled upon man in a Neanderthal mask When I wandered so much like an outcast I wondered what had been his place in the world so vast The archaeologist measured his cranial capacity To quantify his level of humanity above his brow Questioned his intellectual capacity based on his tool making abilities For what could a caveman possibly have known This man was gone for more than thirty thousand years Forgotten by history in a shallow icy grave lying supine And his extinction mirrored some of my own fears For he was family, a member of *****Sapiens I forecast my own humanity ten thousand years from now Their origins and if the future is as blick as they say For all of history, it would seem, we were separate somehow And when we eventually reconnected, we had moved too far astray Thabang Jan Ngoma 04-08-2015 Sponsor: Isaiah Zerbst Contest Name: In The Library