Restore Life 2

Species did die ere man, In the round of selection, So many and so long. What difference now Should they go? In trackless time Lent to adaptation, A peice succeeds To its proper slot, Only displacing By adjusted gene. Extinction wrought by man Plays at no game, But sweeps all the peices To the floor. After so many millions of years To be Now Out of time Out of tune Out of space Out of place Out of luck Out of life Only because You make it so. So whats to do, old man, If all that was, is lost To a human field. Even you cannot Turn entropies tide. If morality came From the divine, There would be our excuse, It wasn't us Who said that we could kill. But man is creator Of moral sense, If it comes at all, Only to live in good part With his human kin. The wolf and the whale Know that they live. They know their fellows. Pain and ecstatic joy Are part of their life. We reason that We alone matter. That is our fault. Everything with eyes to see, Ears to hear, Many senses Beyond our own, Are the consciousness That gives the universe Its meaning. We always discount What we do not understand, We cannot see Through a gorillas eyes. Precepts must grow To evolve a morality That encompasses all life. While we struggle Our gilded towers to raise, Life is destroyed by Our over wheening mass. If life is to proceed Along its evolving path, Man must grow To learn control, Become protector, All life is here For all we know. To be the species, Like a meteor Of extinction Must appal. We need another story. For human blessing on life To be, that each woman Have only one child, Till evolutions productive Glory, restore the earth.