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Boundless source to fuel the change

Thunder, lightning, rain

Against a backdrop of extremes

Evolution crucible

Earth-engine finds its stride

Despite thousand foot tides

Time, the enabler of conditions

For abiogenesis

Chemical reactions

to produce more complex molecules

Simple organic compounds: nucleobase, amino groups

Oceans command, a primitive world

Black smokers or thermal vents

Establish weather in the skies

On the crust, clash tectonic plates

Carve the face of mountains

with movement of glaciers

The highest peak dives deepest,

but one day returns again

It is believed, of the multiplicity of protocells

Only one line survived – the last universal ancestor

“Therefore, should infer from analogy that probably,

all organic beings

Which ever lived on this Earth have descended

from some primordial form

Into which life first breathed....

(the) great first cause of animality

Delivering down those improvements

by generation to posterity.” - Erasmus Darwin

The last universal common ancestor

Progenerator of the immortal gene

At the deepest root of the tree of life,

neither true animal or plant

Alive in its purest form;

something new, unique, in a vast Universe