Ode to Gorgonopsid

By Romana Annette  12/01/2008

You were the mightiest of Permian yesteryears

Sporting those saber-tooth canines

Literally positioned as the top dog of your age

But forgotten in the mists of time.

Glory preempted by dinosaurs and their tyrannosaurs

A zero on modern popularity polls

So what if the Permian age of pre-mammals came first

Mesozoic upstarts got all the press.

Maybe you can rise again and reclaim your standing

As a star of screen and television

Yet you suffer the pain of being rammed and shot

Human descendents are not kind.

Perhaps there is still a chance for your redemption

Despite pesky space-time anomalies

You boldly saved us from the vicious future predator

A proclaimed primevil hero at last.