Paul

Trilobite     

Five hundred million years ago

a miniscule sea creature

scuttled across the sea floor.

A gloomy black, 

this Paleozoic creature looks

like a cockroach

with a scaly back

and frog-like eyes.

It lived in a time before cell phones,

before humans.

Now this creature rests

encased in rock, a fossil

to look at in science class.

Paul