Children, Resourcefully Adaptable Survivors

Humanity, the most adaptable of all creation

from its primeval beginnings a single-cell

creature that time, the elements and

opportunity elevated to a land-roving

animal and evolution propelled into a

species leaving the many proto-humans

to extinction reaching far from its original

habitation in oceanic slime to forests and

jungles taming the wild and reaping the

earth of its life-giving properties. In its zeal

to conquer all finding itself civilized far

from the familiar wild, consigning the past

to a forgettable memory, adapted and adept

at building skyscrapers, flying the skies yet

succumbing to primitivism in its passion 

for survival. Adaptive now to relearning its

place in nature four children schooled in its

ways remain living proof of inherent capability

surviving unassisted in the dense embrace of an

Amazonian jungle through the knowing ways

of their indigenous roots, nature's miracle.