Precambrian
I was in hell being bombed in the Hadean.
I was just alive in the Archean.
I was long present in the Proterozoic.
Paleozoic
I was changed by life in the Cambrian.
I brought order to the Ordovician and
I just survived the Silurian.
I nearly drowned in the Devonian, all those fish!
I made coal in the Carboniferous, delta, changes.
I was probably present in the Permian desert dust storms.
Mesozoic
I was a playa in the triple, arid Triassic,
I evolved with many ‘ites during the Jurassic.
I chalked the Cretaceous, fashioning forans and flints.
Cenozoic
I nearly perished in the Paleogene,
I numbered all the Neogene.
I quaked in the sometimes chilly Quaternary.
Holocene
I have lived so long, it may seem perverse but
I want to live to the end of the universe.
I am the worse for wear and war weary.
I am your home, your Earth, cherish me dearly.
© Richard Kefford 2020 Eorðdraca
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