He stood on the grassland of Ledi Geraru.
The sky was a vast expanse of melancholic gray
and the crimson blue light made the night imminent.
Each twilight his feet felt the kiss of the dewy shrub
as he waited for the first star to come out
that in a hushed sweep descended as peace.
He would raise his finger to the sky
and upon the river of his eyes
the star broke into fragments of tears.
He was slowly dying
but a greater him was to tread the grassland.
His eyes weren't found.
Only his jaws still stuck with the beauty
were dug up from the stardust.
A fossil jaw plucked from the badlands of Ethiopia—points to East Africa as the birthplace of our evolutionary lineage.
The site where the jaw was found, called Ledi-Geraru, was a mix of grasslands and a few shrubs 2.8 million years ago.
This write draws inspiration from the above.