Easter Islanders Go Belly-Up

The collapse of a civilization.

Easter Islanders Go Belly-Up

 

By Elton Camp

 

It’s the most remote inhabited place around

In the far past, with residents it did abound

Then some catastrophe the natives did befall

And death then overtook them, just about all

 

Nobody knows what trouble brought demise

Some think they didn’t treat their island wise

Perhaps its natural resources they misused

Or one another, the natives may have abused

 

A work of no worth the islanders did for years

It must have required blood, sweat and tears

Huge stone heads with visages horribly grim

Their entire island the sculptors came to rim

 

Were they intended to frighten invaders away?

What was their purpose nobody really can say

Perhaps, due to the energy the natives did waste,

The collapse of their civilization came in haste