13/01/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation
Long before the cradle of civilisation
Was a twinkle in some long dead ruler’s eye
A mother birthed a world
That would spawn all of life itself
A hellish birth in the depths of Hades
Cannibalising poor, youthful Theia
Her bones cast adrift to form a ghostly spectre
A sister unable to cast her own light
A heart of fire warming its frame
Its skin boiling and bubbling
Bombarded by foreign bodies
Formed in distant stars
Irregular vessels supply that life sustaining thing
That cool drink to parched lips
The scars of a millennia of battles fought
Healing over, only pock marks remain
Anaerobic organisms fed on a chemical soup
Free from the oxygen we hold so dear
Create the conditions for life to flourish
By their very humble existence
The age of unicellular forms ran rampant
Microbes, bacteria and algae galore
Making up the primordial ooze
From which all other creatures crawled
Tiny forms found in the bosom of the earth
Microscopic witnesses to the dawn of a world
That would deliver every known organism
And nurture them all their lives.
This is great! Humans have destroyed Mother Earth! Love it.
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