Where Giants Have Walked

There were days when giants could reach out and touch the heavens. Their steps shook the earth to its deepest depths. To them, trees were merely blades of grass, mountains merely hillocks, and oceans merely lakes. Walking beside them we would have been minuscule ants scrambling to get to the safety of our dirt hills.

Now, we loom over their corpses that have sunk far into the same ground they once shook. Their skeletons power our civilizations. Their legacy, our power. Trees we’ve felled, mountains we’ve mined, and oceans we’ve ruined. Other forms of life flee from us lest we extinguish them.

Despite our stature, we have the commendable goal of being giants. In our efforts however, we might leave behind a world of only ants.