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Scouring untouched caverns

The thickened aura of transverse past

Breathing forgotten spores

Rock walls slickened with a lack of disturbance

Pathway narrows, piles of broken bone cleaved unnaturally

Hacked with tools fashioned from parts of beasts extinct

Skull size variation yields a pocket before the dawn

Convened in herds of the hunted, exterminated hominids

Yield of neanderthalic remains

An unknowing whisper from a simple death

Bodies eaten by worms long-since gone

Torsos cleaned by animals long dead