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Down to the simplest form

There is will to remain

Immortality in the genes you host

Can a miracle be seen?

In absolute destiny

The truth is so much more than this manmade dream

Journey of a seed

On winds of a global road

Shows the path for all in a natural world

Let the strongest live

As the weak may die

Each into its place, the answer “why”

Light will be thrown on the origin of man

Chain of being is now redefined

If landscapes can be transfigured by slow change, so surely,

could flesh modify in the same way

Archive of the rocks is a series of snapshots

Only taken at long intervals

With a badly focussed camera, the analogy goes

In good time disturbs all graves

No vestige of beginning, no prospect of an end

Think of all the species unknown

To taste oblivion is to master nemesis

The clock of Long Now, it strikes the hour

The idea that the Universe has been preserved since Creation

is now dead and cannot reverse

When perfectly viewed

Through an objective lens

The legacy of resistance falls away

Light will be thrown on the origin of man

Chain of being is now redefined

There is grandeur in this view of life

And endless forms, most beautiful