Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Chauvet Cave

The Chauvet Cave, where long ago
The cave bears came to hybernate.
Their scratches on the cave walls show
Nature's canvas to decorate.
As later, human painters came
And painted tributes to the bears
And to some other beasts of fame,
Leaving artful extraordinaires.
The footprints of a human child
Show walking about the cave floor,
Perhaps the last to be beguiled
By the depictions left before.

A rockslide left the cave concealed.
Centuries pass until revealed.