In The Beginning

Out of the timelessly vast desolating
darkness of the universe swirling and
turning, tumbling and sweeping along
corridors of space where chemicals
and gases, inorganic matter and dust
gather and disperse, coalesce and explode
tumbling and tossing once spewed a
primal bacteria onto the cooling molten
Earth where it evolved over countless
aeons as mountains thrust through the 
Earth's crust and volcanoes spat fire
while the roiling atmosphere cooled
giving birth to a lifeform that would be 
the precursor to all lifeforms of vegetation
and animals, ancient birds of the air
reptiles of the land, fish of the sea then
mammals making their home in the
forests and oceans as the planet cooled
then heated then cooled again and 
humankind arose. Never do we think of 
ourselves as anything but nature's perfect 
creation the ultimate thinking machine 
capable of manipulating the bounty of 
the Earth to our own design. Having
conquered the land and the seas we
look toward space wherefrom we came
awaiting discovery and exploitation.
Then caution arises that the bacteria
so copiously colonizing our bodies 
might conceivably contaminate space
other planets and possibly the universe.