The Neanderthals

no conversations
no stories

no words to speak your heart out to
no words to sink your heartbreaks in
no words to ring the ears
no words at all

imagine a world
that
mirrored it all


does the idea run algid sweatlets down the lengths of your shivering spine


in a world
of scripted spontaneity
apparently emotive words
and
emoticons and emojis



what is more appalling

the idea of extinction
or
the life of a fossil