splendid earth

manifold wonders, our earth but a speck of infinite vast of knowledge saved

Endless cycle repetitious 
vast globe of magical rock mineral earth 
living breathing fantastic orb 
with innumerable portals, infinite textures,  
tastes and colors, life forms' splendor, 
intelligences manifold 
from paramecium to insects 
to birds, reptiles, mammals, you and me
no other in the vast like ours, magical planet

we've SETI  searched,  
no Goldilocks proven life abode as yet
what's the reason? i'd like to know

we're all alone, 
in the one far arm 
of swirling spiral galaxy, milky way

we look above out of day's sun light
and cannot see but 'til the night
millions more of suns like ours above 
at near zenith's full 
in the spinning milieu within our own arm
of swirling spiral galaxy, milky way

cold stars though hot they burn,
surrounded by dark matter dense 
invisible maddening anonymous 
wind, snow, rain of storm
millennial repetitious eons passage' time 

what would you give to be immortal?
not like a tree deciduous green 
born in spring renewed, post winter season's sleep, 
but rather unbroken, unsleeping 
eternal conscienceness, glorious life

death unheard, unknown, forever banned
outside the gate, 
in hell's own hold restrained
in pitch of black so cold
yet immeasurable hot

earth, sweet earth 
alchemy like renewal,
divine elixir infused 
spark of life indefinable,
blueprints unattainable to mortal man, our kind
backwards engineering impossible 

earth, sweet earth
formed of God's mind 
conceived, breathed by his love 
for sake of man, his domain assigned