The Bone Relics Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

The Bone Relics

What is a bone but a relic,
Of something mammalian,

The ancestrial fossils, as a stump of a dead tree is,
the weathervane percursors of whats coming,
premature deaths when gloriously or ingloriously we belong with the relics, the ancestors,

The warfare they were succuming, the daily duress, the fighting forsurvivalsbetween the men and the beasts and the harsh unbecoming nature.

Their jungle skills,
Before the cunning Gods oftalents they/weinvented the fire, the iron then steel, then the wheels,
before they were freed from ancient tools of the stone axes the wooden clubs and the steel knives,

And theirsurvivals, before archeology and paleoathropology,
begins a story,

The lives of the ancient pasts,
Hiding inside the wombs of our mothers, would care to remind us and share the secret of our origins?

before we were clothed and fully groomed, handsome, beautiful prototype of a mordern couples

Before men were homosapiens and sentient
The savages and the descendance,
Before the world and time would buried them ingloriously as a relics as a bone.
We were thesenaked savages.





The Bone Relics

What is a bone but a relic,
Of something mammalian,

The ancestrial fossils, as a stump of a dead tree is,
the weathervane percursors of whats coming,
premature deaths when gloriously or ingloriously we belong with the relics, the ancestors,

The warfare they were succuming, the daily duress, the fighting forsurvivalsbetween the men and the beasts and the harsh unbecoming nature.

Their jungle skills,
Before the cunning Gods oftalents they/weinvented the fire, the iron then steel, then the wheels,
before they were freed from ancient tools of the stone axes the wooden clubs and the steel knives,

And theirsurvivals, before archeology and paleoathropology,
begins a story,

The lives of the ancient pasts,
Hiding inside the wombs of our mothers, would care to remind us and share the secret of our origins?

before we were clothed and fully groomed, handsome, beautiful prototype of a mordern couples

Before men were homosapiens and sentient
The savages and the descendance,
Before the world and time would buried them ingloriously as a relics as a bone.
We were thesenaked savages.