Herculean Oceans, Teeming With Life In Evolution's Maze (4)

The tides, the waves, the floods, though boundless stream Return back those waters to where they dwell, Unquenchable, untamed heaving basins Fueling the ire of homespun hurricanes In allegiance to their cause. Oceans dream Impinging upon landscapes in their sleep And by the feeblest margins are they bound, When with wolf like presence suddenly leap Laying claim to the humble works of man And all separated from them at birth Reunited forever in the sea; All things warm and green, that live, breathe and sound, Things that walk, fly, creep or prowl, every dell, Chasm, valley in mute tranquility, That which is high and inaccessible enveloped by the waters of the earth, For these their prey even the far mountains Ages rose, spread as young foundations creeped; Harvesting the falls, geysers and fountains And ancestors trapped deep in glacial ice. Mankind's doom, felled from his vain pinnacle That no sun or moon, no mortal power Can prevent this relentless siege on life. No more a city, a deluge, a ruin! Will man's screams be heard through the rain drenched skies? A perpetual vat churning, stewing, Encircling trees and lakes and rich sweet soil. I shutter as our world is drawn down But pay homage to Herculean Oceans For by our own waste we are overthrown. Glaring then this image, a man less world, Never can he reclaim his dwelling place, What once his home now forever spoiled And all the working's of his mind are gone. Total annihilation of a race Remnants swirling in tumultuous swells. On this aquatic world warm sunlight beams Perhaps live cells of humanity cling Like mucous to the walls of air filled caves And a novel spark of creation gleams As the waters acquiesce and recede Returning to the place of their dwelling And leave in their wake majestic rivers. From the land dormant seeds rekindling As the greening age of paradise flows Teeming with life in evolution's maze Something new, unique, unhuman moves there Taking its first breath, struggling in the salt charged air.