neanderthal

this evening I spoke with a friend

of the possibility
that 30,000 years ago
humans in Europe suffered
a great psychological trauma
beyond genocide
as the neanderthal humans
passed from the face of the Earth
after some contact with our ancestors
the knowers of knowers

and that it is also possible
there was enough interbreeding
to preserve some of the genetic material
of the sufferings of a dying people-species
in a traumatized collective memory
which would grow to be perpetuated
over indigenous cultures the world over
by way of projected shadow

and my friend understood