A Homo Sapien
We are the Smart Apes
who rose from the African Plains
who learned to eat meat
and grow large brains;
I see Cro-Magnon man
and Neanderthal man;
living in the Caves
fashioning spear tips;
I, Cro-Magnon Man
came from the Middle East
to Europe
to find there Neanderthal,
short,
stocky
slow.
I could see
he had no knowledge of serrated
spear tips:
was no match
for my nimble technologies.
and the warming climes.
I inter-married and /or dispersed him
until today I am all that is left.
I brought new fire to Neanderthal;
in it simmers his remains.
I see other animals
learning fear
as the Ape spread
from Africa
to Java, to Asia
and Europe;
There were halting migrations
twice made
driven by climate change;
the whole human race
dwindled down to 14 thousand souls;
a tiny gene pool;
the ancestors of our entire progeny.
We are all mutants then
from a gene pool too small;
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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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