Homo naledi

[brynmawr1]

Accidental creatures          Don't like this as not biologically accurate but see where you were going
crawling deep into caves
to return their dead 
by flickering firelight     in?
to the original dark.     Nice opening stanza

Brains the size of oranges
they chitter and claw
feasting on antelope.
Predators cannot follow
but listen at the entrance

and drift away in boredom       Don't like boredom either.  maybe...'eventually drift away' but that's boring too.  'then drift away'
hungry for bigger prey.
Humanity’s lost children      Like these three lines
watching their shadows
play on the cave walls    consider keeping for rhythm

their prehensile laughter        
does not wake their dead
they expect no God,    hope for? wait for?
no Savior, only sunrise.

Hi TqB
Really enjoyed this.  I like your historical poems and how you take a few historical facts and create a narrative around them.  Made some half hearted suggestions above.  Especially liked the ending.  My one final thought would be to make a new stanza by splitting S2 and S3 to combine the predator parts.
take care,
bryn