Donum Terrae - Earth's Precious Gift

When the Earth was young, fire dominated the hellish land, flowing like blood in veins giving life to the rocky planet. It glowed like molten rock within a furnace ready to be moulded into the continents that float like ducks on water regardless of constant motion. The land was bare and resembled what most would consider hell but still it was darkly beautiful in its own self. Millennia passed with no trace of life until that all faithful day when the Earth was bombarded by rocky meteorites and frozen comets. These titans of nature brought Earth’s most precious gift transforming the bare land in to a world of new-born oceans. A never ending rain-storm begun causing the oceans to grow like an embryo in a mother’s womb. Sadly the air was poisonous and the sky red, like a never ending sunset; life took no hold of the empty and barren land. Time passed slowly and the oceans begun to fill with the smallest of creatures, too small to be seen with the naked eye. Slowly the air begun to change and the way to evolution began, giving rise to adaption and abilities never seen before on the barren land. Single-celled creatures became multi-celled giving rise to what is considered the life force of us all – DNA. Time passed slowly but life exploited the barren land filling it with the most peculiar of creations. The Earth became a box of chocolates for whichever way one looked nothing was the same. The Earth’s precious gift is life but without the aid of nature’s titans life itself would have never begun in such a fiery furnace – glowing then yet dark.