Song of Life

And so life arose, a billion years ago or so,
sparked by the energy of the sun, that
ultraviolet light, in the murky ponds
or back water swamps or perhaps
the oceans vast, when bits of
inorganic material, simple
elements, became amino
acids, on their way to
self-replicating
molecules,
like DNA*. 

Abiogenesis, the scientific term, means
life from non-life; it happened because
we are here, just like so many other
species on this blue Earth.  What
is it then?  The hand of some
God or gods, or perhaps
merely the workings of
nature—her natural
laws discerned by
thinking people
courageous
enough to
question. 

Life’s diversity, so many species too
numerous to mention, and yet, the
truth be told that most of what has
lived on Earth is now extinct.
So it goes with life, and so
it goes with evolution, the
dying, the extinction
events o’er spans
of time we can’t
comprehend.
That’s the
key; time,
death.

Birth, beginning, dawn, newness, life:
one planet formed to host us and all
of life throughout time…it is to sing.

40 Lines
Writer’s Cramp Co-Winner
12-4-17
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*DNA—deoxyribonucleic acid, life’s master molecule, the famous, “double helix.”