Humans walk on two feet
We’ve been doing it
our entire existence
Walking requires a reason
A decision of where to go next
And what will happen when
We get to where
we decided to go
How to get back
Or how to survive
where we’re at
We still travel for the same means
water, food, mating, and curiosity.
To provide for ourselves
and / or our family
I walk a lot, have a big family
Running errands for my mother
Was one of the only times in my life
I was alone with my own thoughts
Everything becomes enhanced
Your mind is stimulated by
The sky,
the mountains
and structures in the distance,
the sounds deciphering
mixing with smells of the environment
For me, it was Baradino’s Bakery
For Lucy, it was probably
fruits ripping in the trees
The risk of predators was real for her
And for me
I didn’t have to worry about a Smildon
Some weirdo asking
if I wanted a ride
Was just as scary
Walking on two feet
is one of the main traits
that makes us human
It is greatly underestimated
As just a means of survival
Walking enhanced our senses
But more importantly
it expanded our imagination
and thought process
The exact moment
humans became bipedal
is disputed
but an average of the consensus
is 5mya
The continents separated
geologically
close to this evolution.
India started to smash into Asia, approximately 10mya.
Became what we know today
about 5mya
A whole country 1,270,000 square miles
Crashed into Asia.
We can not begin to comprehend
how violent and catastrophic
It was to the oceans
the enormous waves
That came with
a whole country
moving across oceans
and colliding against Asia
the largest landmass on earth.
In America, the Caribbean
was being formed
a much slower and peaceful process
in comparison.
The Cocos plate being subducted
into the Caribbean plate
and regurgitated out as volcanoes and islands.
Still to this day
the Cocos plate is being melted
and reborn into the land that created Central America.
3mya the Great Atlantic Passage Columbus went crazy looking for
closed forever.
Forming the Caribbean Sea.
Our species lived through these unprecedented geological and environmental events
To give an example of how crazy India’s journey across two oceans was.
The Caribbean took over
155mya to form
It took India 10mya to create the Himalayas, which is ridiculous!!!
Absolutely ninja quick for a country to travel 4 thousand miles.
I believe the coincidence of us
Becoming bipedal at 5mya and
These geological events accruing
At the same time. Is no coincidence at all.
We started to change because the earth was literary changing under us.
I believe us trying to explain
The earths geological and environmental
Effects on us
Is how language was created
how science religion and agriculture were born
It all began the same way
With a step in a new direction
Worded Warrior 