Monotreme Love Story (An Antediluvian Tale)

Before speciation,

when we were neighbors in Gondwanaland,
 

we celebrated the fruits of the Malagasy Orgeny

which brought us together.

We frolicked in the polar fields

with hyraxes,

other echidna,

and your family of platypi.

We carefully avoided the hypsilophodonts

but cried a pool of tears

after losing our brethren to the Pterosaurs.

You conjured the One True Echidna,

and beseeched her for revenge!

She summoned a meteor

from Antares Prime

guided by her chimera progeny

to bring about the polar fauna armageddon.

Just before the behemoth hit

which brought darkness to the earth for millenia

and smothered our predators,

she poisoned your talon

and sharpened my quills.

We burrowed into our cave

and avoided mutation

through selective breeding.

We now live among the bipeds,

but remember our ancestral amity.