A Blink With Bulldozers

Take the whole story, every layer, every age Compress it down to a single, giant page Humans show up on the very last line The ink's still wet, we just arrived on time

We're a blink with bulldozers, a flash with machines Louder than anything the fossil record's seen Moving more rock in a hundred years than a river could In a hundred thousand, that's simple math, plainly understood

Coral took forever building reefs cell by cell We paved over some in a summer, changed a whole shoreline's spell The air itself remembers every breath we've spent Written in the ice cores, a chemical document

We're a blink with bulldozers, and blinks can matter more Than epochs full of quiet, if the blink kicks in the door The choice was never given to the asteroid, the ash, the freeze But we get to choose what our thin gold line agrees to leave

Layers from now, whatever reads this rock Will find our plastic, our concrete, our clock And they'll know exactly when the quiet ended here This time a species wrote the ending, loud and clear

We're a blink with bulldozers, still early in the page Nothing's written yet about how we use this stage The line is thin, the line is ours, the line is still being drawn Make it a layer worth finding when the rest of it is gone