The Sum Of All Things

Think -- for you have been so gifted 
with the power of mind and thought
 -- in one gesture -- one vital moment
in a vacuum before time existed nature
clapped her hands to create a universe
where absolutely nothing had been. Tim
has shifted from then to now when a vast
cosmos teems with gases, metals and
chemicals, uncountable galaxies 
their brilliant stars and captured worlds
of manifold lifeforms in the sum of all 
being spreading the gospel of existence
within the dark desolation of space
where bursts of energy spark intense light
and from the depths of oceans and
primeval sludge amoebas venture forth
refined and differentiated in step with
time and the living drama of adaptation
the emerged result capable of imagining
thinking and exploring its near and far 
landscape then raising its aspirations to 
the stars and beyond to venture forth and 
challenge nature's exclusive domination 
with her indomitable creatures' ambitions.