They might have been viewed as precursors, had their line
not ended quite so abruptly
Their culture could possibly have evolved into more than a
simple, greedy self-destruction
Maybe their fossils would have been enshrined in chapels,
museums and laboratories
Looking at their petrified remains might have even inspired
great awe and wonder in little ones
Their lifestyle in an ancient era would have been a lesson
to their grateful descendants
Emergence from a rough and tumble past might have resulted
later, in a state of grace
Their patchwork history and tattered legends could have
easily anchored great cultures
Viewed as ancestors, their violent habits would have been
seen in a totally different light
They might have passed on valuable lessons from out of a
vast sea of ancient experience
Perhaps distant progeny would have honored them and sought
out their blessings
It might have been possible that they formed the stem of a
still-flowering species tree
Their DNA could have contributed to something beyond their
short, harsh and angry tale
Had their seed carried on, their venal struggles might not
now appear so foolish and so vain
Were they not evolutionary dead-ends their violence and
waste might possibly make sense
Without wantonly destroying their supporting environment,
they could have carried on
Possibly, if they did not extinguish so many other species,
they could have even loved one another
Outcomes may have differed if their myths had endowed
everlasting souls to all living things
Could have survived had they not gifted themselves
exclusive domain over their one planet
Maybe their self-granted commandment to be fruitful resulted
in their toxic overpopulation
Certainly the warfare demanded by their many one true gods
contributed to their demise
They might not have shambled off into early oblivion had
they escaped their own Social Darwinism
If they could have appreciated their inheritance, they might
have planned for their legacy
Perhaps not basing their economy on shortsighted greed would
have led to more success
Finally taking action only after they had collapsed their
ecosystem was not a viable survival strategy
Maybe not gauging their progress solely upon extractive
consumption would have helped
Trusting in ponzi perpetual growth instead of steady state survival probably aided their demise
Their never-begotten offspring might not have disdained
their elders as irrelevant fools
Had they the sense not to bring on a mass extinction, things
might have been very different
Possibly their urge to killing did not serve them as
self-appointed stewards of the earth
Maybe market solutions were not appropriate for blindly
solving all of their world’s problems
Basing price on demand did not ensure the long-term
availability of any of their finite resources
Placing their bloated population’s marketed needs before the
one planet that sustained them failed
They might have explored the universe had they not destroyed
their own spaceship earth
In the end, their perpetual and expensive warfare did not
confer to them any survival advantage
If they had not always followed monomaniacal will-to-power
freaks, they might still exist
But, instead, they are rightly known
as the precursors of nothing and the ancestors
to no living beings
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