Pangaea’s Dining Table
Do you remember the children of Pangaea?
Every morning they sat around a large table,
laughing without a single worry.
They didn’t need to speak—
their hearts were always one,
just as the land they lived on had once been one.
Long ago, that land broke apart
and drifted away to distant places across a wide sea.
Still, no one truly believed it.
(For if that were the case,
how could they share their meals,
warm themselves in the sun,
or sing their songs together?)
But the children never spoke such questions aloud.
When hearts are always one,
what one child does not know
is something no one knows.
They surely could not have imagined
a world where people live on the same planet
and yet eat different meals
at different times
in different places—
(Even though everyone feels hunger
in the very same way?)
On the supercontinent called Pangaea,
only the children lived.
Each morning they gathered at their large table,
laughing without ever growing tired.
Since their hearts were always one,
whatever one child knew
was known to everyone.
Words weren’t necessary,
and there was no story that needed to be shared.
Do you remember the singing voices
that once rose above Pangaea’s dining table?
There must have been that one history,
spoken only through melody,
without title
and without lyrics.
*Note:
Pangaea was a single supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago before splitting into today’s continents.
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