Ow! I tripped over the corner

of a metal object, raised a foot from the ground.

“What is this?” as I dug with my hands

and a rusted,  rustic metal chest, I found.

 

Inside a skeletal bones of an unknown unusual bird.

A message chiseled in stone as I move my hands as if a braile.

My heart pounding as a read a fearful tale.

 

Death of humans

of an epic proportion.

The animal caused a pandemic

which nearly led to human decimation.

 

A hundred years ago and the cycle continues!