Everyone dies in childbirth

Everyone dies in childbirth.

...of course you were killed

 when a new life was spilled

onto the planet. 

 How could you not, when 

that first breath was caught

and released?

Remember, there was a time

 when everyone died

on the planet;

 maybe thousands, or millions, a billion,

I wasn't there.

Only 8 people escaped. 

 The flood waters burst open

from the depths of the earth, 

 ripping jaggedly through continents

and more water dripped from above.

After that, there were rainbows.