The Observer

Midway upon my life’s journey

I entered a Pub,

Within the Southern end of London

And sat next to a man

Who ate nothing with his mouth

But he ate and drank with his hands

And when I had sat

With my mead and asked him

“Oh great lord who eats with his hands

Could you tell me of your life

As you seem to have

A story to tell?”

“I do have a story,

Many to be exact.

As I have been here for billions of years

I was sent here by my comrades,

Who are like me composed of nanorobots

And a head that has our AI

I have seen all those things

Described by the Immortal.

And I have seen more

I saw the rise

Of humanity

And I saw so much more

I’ve seen the very start of Earth

I was there Earth was struck

With the Protoplanet Theia

I saw the first appearance of Water

I saw the first living cells

But they all went extinct

I saw the first Prokaryotes

Those without Nuclei

I saw the last Universal Terrestrial Common Ancestor

I saw the first photosynthesizers

I saw the first organisms on land

But they all went extinct

I saw the explosion of oxygen

I saw the evolution Eukaryotes

I saw the development of sexual reproduction

I saw the many lifeforms of the Cambrian Explosion

And I saw the first ancestors of Seaspunges, Bugs, and Anemones

But they all went extinct

I saw the start of the cambrian

I saw the first vertebrates

I was with the first animal to leave tracks on lans

I saw the first jellyfish

I saw the Acanthostega

But they all went extinct

I saw the era of jungle

I saw those massive insects

I saw the rise of one of the few plants to have not gone extinct, the ferns

I saw the first octopi

And I saw the first beatles

But they all went extinct

I saw the rise of the Dinosaurs

I saw the first armour in Dinosaurs

I saw the first Pterosaurs

I saw the first stegosaurus

And I saw that tyrant lizard, Tyrannosaurus rex

But they all went extinct

I saw the rise of mammals

I saw primates rise

I saw homo-erectus dominate the world for Meganuums

I saw Neaderthals rise

I saw homosapiens genocide them all.

But they all went extinct

All others went extinct

And though I have hopes for your species

All the others went extinct

And so do will yours

But you may be able to ,leave your mark

If your people Expand to space and encounter my people.”

And I sat there

In shock

Contemplating my life’s choices.