Darwin

From ancient blackened earth our lives emerged Affirming eon's cycling through soil's time But in the end all creatures had diverged. Though ash and cinder oft contributes grime To rising zephyr souls whose breaths are numb, The weathercock and vane, when tossed by clime, Expel arrays of song with cogent thrum And sweep away gray residues to place on this sad groaning land a laudanum. Our tingling bodies rise and fall with grace At measured rates and epics of no date Hold myths instilling dramas to embrace. Each moment burns a candlewick of fate. Our nurture and our nature maybe blurred Yet our atomic cells that did not wait. From slime to flesh and blood genetics stirred. Man's science know what brought each life to birth But not the why existence had occurred. Now we are stewards tending to our Earth. This we must do with highest care and worth.