Pre-Cambria

All the little animals swam up to feel the air that day.

They danced in the water like they never had before.

I know they did.

 

My science teacher says that they never knew it was coming.

And he says they all went slowly, one by one.

 

But I know.

I know that Pre-Cambria was full to the brim

With light on its last day.

 

The last breath of the old world was never a deflating, normal 

Sigh, like they say it was.

 

It was a gasp.

Posted in response to the challenge Climate and Our Earth - Writing .

wph

VT

16 years old

More by wph

  • Poetry

    By wph

    Misfit Kid Summer

    I look at the empty kiddie pool in my backyard

    In the Midwest summer

    My friends used to come to my house

    So they could all get in it,

    But they don’t like to swim much anymore

     

  • Essay

    By wph

    I Am Someone Who

    I am someone who is waiting on a dock in the middle of the night. There is a gross, green electric light shining on me. There is something out in the waves.