For The Earth Spins Long

For The Earth Spins Long
© Surazeus
2019 03 04

Little children, who play among the trees, 
if you may stop to wonder who we are, 
how we got here, and why we are alive, 
gather under this tree and eat ripe fruit, 
then listen to my song about creation 
that reveals how we evolve from the sea, 
for the Earth spins long before we are born 
and the Earth will spin long after we die. 

At first flash of the big bang the White Whole 
expands matter that fragments into strings 
coiling as they sparkle into taut quarks 
which link triangles into pulsing atoms 
that form in protons, neutrons, and electrons, 
then stars forge molecules from nucleus, 
for the Earth spins long before we are born 
and the Earth will spin long after we die. 

When stars form elements helium to iron 
they explode and swirl elements in spheres 
that form planets with mountains full of seas 
where thermal vents heat carbon to form rings 
which spiral into writhing coils of genes 
constructing bodies that develop brains, 
for the Earth spins long before we are born 
and the Earth will spin long after we die. 

Plants that sprout onto surface of the Earth 
convert carbon dioxide to oxygen 
then tetrapods with four legs and long tails 
crawl from seas along rivers to broad lakes, 
evolving fish to lizard to mouse to ape 
to man who stands on lake of dreams to sing, 
for the Earth spins long before we are born 
and the Earth will spin long after we die. 

We stand by lake of dreams at dawn of time 
and speak to beam visions of eyes in words 
so we communicate what we perceive 
and design programs to cooperate 
building complex food-production machine 
so we fly airplanes among clouds like gods, 
for the Earth spins long before we are born 
and the Earth will spin long after we die.