When time itself was young, great stars collapsed
Hurling white-hot sparks across unbounded night
Complex carbon coalesced upon a pinwheel's rim
Within our cooling sphere Gaea dreamt till dawn's watered eons
When lightning changed electrolytic seas to blood
Goddess of the double helix, matter infused with spirit
Being, feeling, wanting, knowing, many and one, great and small
Yearning toward some state beyond the drag of entropy
Bacterium, worm, clam, crustacean, invertebrate, vertebrate
Even glorious thunder-lizard basking in the light
Swam and crawled and strode against the heavy tide
All fallen now to Newton's merciless machine
Whose lifeless clockworks drop their lethal stones
Bringing down the house of blood and bones
Oh woe to Earth! Her forests, her teeming seas, her myriad creatures
Gone, and gone, and gone once more, leaving only traces writ upon grey slate
From the secret place of healing yet again Gaea rose
At her bidding, a furtive primate stepped from the sheltering trees
With mind and clever, grasping hand tamed fire, bent iron to Gaea's will
Now scanning heaven billion-eyed, she arms herself against the hammer blows of doom.
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