The Beginning.

I wrote this for my English class senior year of High School. The assignment was to write something that went out of our usual writing zones. (For me, I wrote about my family and real things that are going on today). I was assigned Romanticism. I decided to make a poem about the creation of the earth from a Romantic Evolutionary Scientists point of view. Here is the product of my efforts:

The Earth is made of rocks and plants,
Of atoms of Carbon and so many more,
Innumerate structures that make up our world,
And most people see them and think "What a bore!"
--But really, it's amazing, simply astonishing,
How it all fit together so well,
You see, back when the earth was first made,
It was a bubbling boiling bare flaming hell.
--But somehow those atoms, just floating around,
Collided in just such a way,
That through the years of evolution,
You and I are here today.
--Yes, we started out 4 billion years ago,
As a toxic primordial ooze,
Which slowly developed small simple cells,
Building blocks for nature to use.
--Those cells divided,
Evolved as they did,
Becoming more complex,
Then developed photosynthesis.
--Once the cells could reap the sun,
And development started slowing,
They could clump together,
Multicellular life starts growing.
--This led to simple animals,
Like slugs and bugs and aquatic things.
Frogs and Flora came to land,
Then lizards and mice and birds to sing.
--Dinos stalk around Pangea,
Killing all the furry things,
Something came and wiped them out,
Now the mammals are the kings.
--They get bigger, more intelligent.
Here we get baboons and apes,
Who evolve into the genus Homo,
We're getting close to our current state.
--Neanderthals die out,
Something new appears to take their place.
These will evolve to become us,
The Homo Sapiens we are today.
--People take advantage of life,
Every single day.
Never ever stopping to think:
"How exactly was all this made?"
--There's a wonder of nature,
Behind every living thing.
It all came from that poisonous soup,
Back in the beginning.