Ancient Climate Change: Vast Off Chart Scales Poem by Terence George Craddock

a grain of sand countless grains of sand make a desert many deserts
once Sahara Desert was fertile wilderness a human paradise habitat
once long long ago a grain of salt white shining in sun crystal grains
of salt a vast far reaching sea of white delight hot scorching in sun salt
where once an inland sea stretched to the horizon once swarming with
fish abundant life long long ago these grains of sand are scattered stacked
beads counting grains of time who can trace the footprints of early human
inhabitants in desert regions dehydrated sands wind erosion erased ancient

footprints long long ago around inland ancient seas salt glistens in the sun
but no past footprints around vanished lakeshores can be found wind
erosion time has whistled erased human memory of lush life once lived
in lost regions past from present are separated in dry dust sand grain time
sun scorching wind blowing are past present painting a desert shifting
timeless portrait once long long time past when huge glaciers covered

continents locked land continents under ice ice on land was denied
as water to fill seas to ancient retreating shorelines sea levels were
hundreds of feet lower humans walked lived in vast lands now under
present oceans we humans are travelers walking now in a sea familiar
scenes that were once time past impossible realities all that is familiar
was once not familiar in ages of dinosaurs this unfamiliar reality we
could call climate change more vast dramatic than present ripple stories
landscapes change realities change humanity adapted to not adapt is an

extinction path it will not be climate change that ends tale of humanity
even Eli comet strikes will not end humanity preparations seed banks
stored for event earth regeneration dumbs deep underground military
bunkers are prepared humanity will survive comet strikes but MAD
our friends nuclear mutually assured nuclear destruction war biological
warfare genetic warfare this is a crap game anyone's guess but fear not

climate change humanity adapts life finds a way especially when hate
anger greed humanity gets out the way gives life a chance to prosper
fear not climate change that money making worth billions cash cow
industry it is but another tax world government tax toy so far humanity
has managed to even survive all forms of government both wise to toxic
yes toxic devastation governments did cause a few nasty speed bumps
along the way with empire conquests endless wars leading to eventual
world wars the solution invest time energy money resources into peace


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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