How does one
or rather how do you
or I write about this time
this sixth extinction
how do we say goodby
to fellow creatures who arrived here
along with us
after all these unimaginable
spans of time
and now are leaving us behind
as they move on
out of time's grasp
leaving us to muddle through
if we can manage it
without them
or are we perhaps to join them
in this last hurrah?