Little Foot: First Hominid

Your footprints in the rock

Supplied a vital clue

A key that might unlock

The mystery of you

 

They take us on a journey

Back four million years

A branching of the life-tree

When ape-man first appears

 

Aeons passed in slumber

Left undisturbed by time

Until Man’s blast of thunder

Exposed the hollow lime

 

Even then you stayed hid

In caves of Sterkfontein

The world’s first hominid

A secret yet remained

 

Until the revelation

By digger Robert Clarke

Brought you commendation

And freedom from the dark

 

Upon an outstretched arm

Your weary head still rested

And your shortened palm

Sparked theories now contested

 

Your waking in the valley

Takes science to the brink

Could you really be

The fated missing link?

 

Of you books will be written

Your sleep has turned to fame

Your progeny are smitten

And echo your proud name

 

Little Foot you have trod

Our path of history

Forever after we are shod

With your humanity

 

 

Copyright 2005

 

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