Extinction

Geographical studies revealing an ancient historical plot
Foreboding stories tell where present landforms and depth of the seas begot
Deluge and dismay from natural causes are ending archaic flora and fauna
Molten and magma spew forth leaving ashes; life blinking away in a series of flashes

Violent tremors shifting tectonic plates reshaping the crust of the globe
Cataclysmic events triggering massive species wide death throes
Seemingly iniquitous removing life on such an extraordinary scale
Survival of the fittest meaning nothing when only the fortunate prevail

The supercontinent now fractured pressures align terrain dispersed
Thirty million years henceforth this chaos until recovery of life on earth

Siphon the Tethys
Siphon the Tethys
Siphon the Tethys
Siphon the Tethys

To what degree can we conclude a cause of this epic occurrence
Perhaps millennia of flood basalt disgorged from buried earthen vents
Hypothesized radiation from a supernova scrutinized as simple conjecture
Further doubt cast on the remnants of an arctic archaic meteorite

A rift causing mountains to sink into the sea
This mass of water, now shallowing
Terra firma breaking apart lifting beneath
Eradication encompassing

Violent tremors shifting tectonic plates reshaping the crust of the globe
Cataclysmic events triggering massive species wide death throes

Survival of the fittest meaning nothing when only the fortunate prevail
The supercontinent now fractured pressures align terrain dispersed

Siphon the Tethys
Siphon the Tethys
Siphon the Tethys
Siphon the Tethys

Extinction

Pangaea obliterated
Causing an end to this Permian life

Thirty five million years until there is renewed life