Gather

amalgamation, amino inception
the thriving womb of our forebears
the tireless reach across ocean epochs
the graceful agony of progression
for we have smelted cells
to carve new scales in hide
in turn recast feathers
with which we did take flight
the hardship of famine, in spite of cataclysm
survive and surpass in the face of all odds
The graceful agony of progression
crawl from below, descend from above
to incubate for millenia,
desperately clinging to the menagerie