Image by Roksana Helscher from Pixabay. Yes, dinosaurs had feathers.
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Sometimes I think… What if God was once
A dinosaur? An intelligent one, mind you,
With a bulging skull and brain like us but with
Stereo vision and opposable thumbs,
With larger females and small but vicious males?
What if God the Dinosaur had beautiful
Rainbow feathers and a toothed beak and
What if the dinosaurs of that species –
Something between Deinonychus and Velociraptor –
Had a cult of the Egg; what if they worshipped
With elaborate dances and song;
What if they had a high and glorious civilization
With better technology than ours and what if
They conquered space and lightspeed and
Even colonised exoplanets?
And what if their civilization was wiped out
By the arrival of the asteroid
66 million years ago – what then?
Might God remember with sadness her
Dinosaur self and long to bring it back?
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Yes, I’ve got a clump of ideas about this lodged in my brain which I hope to release some day.