What Happened To the Giants, Part I
You may have heard folks speak about giants,
it certain circles that some call ‘plain nuts!’
among cryptozoological types
they’re speculated upon rather much.
And every few months on the internet,
at least if you’re into that type of thing,
you see claims of a giant skeleton,
that ‘smart people’ are always downplaying.
They say the bones are misidentified,
that they’re dinosaurs or wooly mammoths,
and sure as they sound talking on TV,
they don’t realize that they’ve swung and they’ve missed.
You see I can tell you about giants,
because, after all, I descend from them,
it’s not a question of if giants lived,
in the end it’s just a question of when.
The human story is a complex one,
with countless species branching off the trunk,
the Denisovans, hobbits of Flores,
neandertals and countless other ones.
And that’s just the ones that we know about,
from the few fossils we’ve pried from the ground,
amidst this great web of human story
the subspecies of giants can be found.
They probably came out of Africa,
most of humanity started that way,
from the tales I keep, they stood at nine feet,
and from the motherland started to stray.
Or maybe the ice ages made their size,
since it did so with other mammals then;
giant bears, giant wolves, things of that sort,
why could it not do the same to mere men?
They spread out across northern Eurasia,
over the land bridges to the new world grand,
doing what most hunter-gatherers did,
hunting the herds that moved across the land.
For eons they lived as others did live,
stone tools and fire, hide shelters or caves,
like neandertals and other humans
they beat the odds being smart, being brave.
You still hear about them in the legends,
their interactions with out modern kind,
the Sioux claimed they fought with ‘red-haired giants,’
for nearly a whole millennium's time.
South American had similar tales,
some claim they still live in Afghanistan,
Europe had Jack fighting giants in myth,
it’s a figure all cultures understand.
It’s said folklore has a kernel of truth,
that history becomes myth over years,
forgetting that these are not mere stories,
that the giants once were actually here.
And just like the other human species
the giants met with a specific end,
thanks to the newest species of human,
and they all interacted with them...
CONTINUES IN PART II.
Copyright © David Welch | Year Posted 2023
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