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- EARTH - A STORY OF MIGRATION
Northern privations become so severe,
Inactivity renewing precious energy.
Ancient community lives and remains poor.
They invest service.
Draw heavily on their reserves
Comparatively scarce.
Continent immense, compact and heavier
From East to West,
Change their character,
Dormant thousands may cluster
Given the chance,
Spreading that so disorients substance
Undetected.
How quickly the young mature
Exceptional abundance,
Population will fall again.
Wanderer will have much
Five or six years, then falling catastrophically
Desperate.
Poor to travel
Will certainly die on the continents
Further south.
Take care not to rest
A distant onslaught
Expressive, consuming, manufacture.
Forests, listening intently
The tiny sounds
Conveniently roar, beat
The same drum roll.
So dense, so tall
Flowers the summer further north.
So strongly
The slightest wind is enough,
Each animal beds down
Growl and whimper
Strange murmuring hubbub
Sleep, certain, alive.
Dormancy is a spell so severe.
Families are in danger of losing consequence
The very character that enabled them
To survive the accumulation of heavy loads.
Danger so effective.
Within reach they have been consumed.
Burning into fireballs,
Shelter on the other side
Maintain constant guard.
Guarding the occupied
Those living to cope
Have strategies and structures
They reach their greatest development,
In greater abundance.