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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368245" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maybe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say, eighteen hundred thousand years ago<br>A lightning strike set blaze a bushy plain<br>And seared the seeds of life that hid below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When cooled, a group appeared on charred terrain<br>And scratched the earth with thumb-opposing hands<br>In search of tuber, pulse or wild grain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alert and ill-at-ease in open lands<br>The scattered stones and sticks provided arms<br>And held aloft, some branches glowed like brands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then shelter bound, they took their smoking charms<br>To ward against their fears, yet knew not how<br>They held an epoch's clock within their palms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A child played with cast-off ashy bough<br>And fed a spark from which a tiny flame<br>then sparked a torch in every bony brow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ages passed for which they had no name<br>In which an unlocked, heat-wrought wealth of food<br>progressively transformed their bodies' frame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Small jaws and teeth, and shorter gut ensued<br>While larger brains advanced their skulls to fore<br>And differential sex size was subdued.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The species spread and prospered, wood to shore<br>Time freed, to hone fine blades for hunt or art<br>And language flourished in the cause of war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More ages passed and time forbade rechart<br>Until their burning needs enclosed complete<br>Dependent bodies, slaves to fire at heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What now to burn? their fossil fuels deplete<br>To feed a shared compulsion, both engrossed<br>And having filled their carbon sinks, replete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In chains of servitude and thrall inmost<br>Denial is the addicts common state<br>Poor parasites of all-consuming host.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*Please choose from one of the following options-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a) Upheaval, floods and famines decimate<br> Descendents left to rue their sorry fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">b) With cognate love and empathy innate<br> They turned the tide before it was too late.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">c) Almighty God did frothily berate<br> With smiting, all who'd dared to fornicate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">d) None of the above.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diane+Hine">Diane Hine</a><div class=q>
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A lightning strike set blaze a bushy plain
And seared the seeds of life that hid below.

When cooled, a group appeared on charred terrain
And scratched the earth with thumb-opposing hands
In search of tuber..."></div>
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