Touching Evolution

In the whole vastness of this Universe It is hard to imagine that we are the only life force Here, where morning light is spread with opal ease, over sapphire oceans and emerald fields Has another race of living beings evolved? Existing in the endless tracts of space Are they similar, or equally mixed like us, capable of cruelty as well as kindness? Do they watch us, silent or wait in fear, for the onslaught of unpredictable humanity- or have life-forms in countless milleniums come and gone, flourished and been destroyed or simply disappeared? Pray, that in the whole vastness of this universe, we'll have the wisdom to protect our own life force; to preserve the sapphire oceans that give life to this, our Earth and pray not to become, another cold dead sphere spinning into infinity. Suzanne Delaney