From liquid fires and swirling skies
Fuels the noxious waters
Time normalizes the chemistry
The most unlikely product emerges
Floating puzzle pieces
Forms a thing that eats and multiplies
All the corners of the world
Are covered with life
Some die and others carry on
Some survive absorbing sunlight
Others devour life
Of the slow survivors
Form shells to protect themselves
The faster ones grow fins
As do the hunters to keep up
One brave soul left the water
And it breathed the first breath
Some lose scales and live on land
Indefinitely
Adapting to their climate
Species and genera
Galloping hooves and burrowing claws
And tearing sharp teeth
Dominance shifts from
Cold to warm blood
Climbing hairy ones start
To walk on land
Their hands slowly lift
Off the ground
These hands shift their fingers
To use tools