The Great Life Supporter

After the big bang in space you hang and hang Getting ready and steady before our history began Beating a couple of a billion stars to become the Sun Molding the ashes of earth for the descent of Man What was your name before we gave you our own? What was it like the morning of that first dawn? Did you see our ancestors crawl out of the sea? Did they acknowledge you, even as they roamed free? While other planets were too cold or too hot You made sure earth was a well-ventilated cot You gave light and warmth just the right dose A little less or more and humanity would never have arose Life in abundance, from microbes to the great dinosaurs Many creatures of the like, when the world had no doors Then you got rid of the dinosaurs, to save us from harm That was the plan, so that our turn could at last come You know which day; the first human stepped on the ground A great evolution hybrid, compound of your compound Did he thank you for the water he drank and the air he breathed? Or for that flower he picked for the first woman he kissed And when humans became the most dominant species You guided them to cross the most dangerous of seas They conquered the world; from ice age to industrial age But for you it was just another turn of a simple page They divided the world into nations and races You watched as they discriminated those of darker faces They forgot that you polished every creature with a unique shade And only Mother Nature can answer for what she made Where were they when you reduced earth’s temperature? Who was present when you designed life’s nomenclature? When you painted the sky blue without using a brush Doing everything to perfection without any rush Yet we walk around proud, as if there is no extinction Self appointed custodians, with portfolios of distinction Finding our refuge inside high walls and banking halls Staking our immortality by the words of ancient scrolls We have the theory of it all but it’s not enough For we have not traveled to the last galaxy above To answer the mysteries surrounding your birth To understand why you chose to support life on earth What keeps you going, what’s beneath your core? What else do you have for us in store? Is there an afterlife after we die? Oh great life supporter ! Does our conscious live on in a land of endless laughter?