Swirling sparks from bursted stars spinning in unbounded night
Complex carbon coalesced upon a pretty pinwheel's rim
Within our cooling sphere she slept, til dawn's watered eons
When from the deep cradle, electrolytic magic transformed the sea to blood

Goddess of the double helix, spirit infused matter
Being, feeling, wanting, knowing…many and one, great and small
Desire beyond thought, reaching toward some future state of being
Toward some realm beyond the weary weight of entropy

Bacterium, worm, clam, crustacean, invertebrate, vertebrate
And even glorious thunder-lizard basking in the light
Once swam and crawled and strode against the heavy tide
All fallen now to Newton's merciless machine

The dead clock unwinding let fall its lethal burden
Bringing down the house of blood and bone
Oh woe to Earth! Her forests, her teeming oceans, her myriad creatures
Gone, and gone, and gone once more, leaving only traces in black slate

From the secret place of healing yet again Gaea rose
At her bidding furtive primate stood and left the jungle
With mind and clever grasping hand tamed fire, bent iron to her will
Now billion-eyed, she scans heaven, armed against the hammer blows of doom.
Michael Drumm