Evolution and History
Poem for the New Year 2003
The Outline for Existence

poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
January 19, 2003 10:17 am

Energy
Geology
Life
Evoulution
History

These are the building blocks of existence
As we know it
As we understand it
And as we are living it

At first, all is universal
As before,
And for all time.

Geology lasts for a long time
And sets the stage for life
Life began from energy
And life evolves
From one aspect of existence to the next.
As life, and mankind in particular, lives,
and dies,
and propogates the race of man into times unknown
and uncertain
History is written
For the good and for the shame of mankind.

First building blocks of understanding

Energy is vast and formless
Precise and volatile
Creator and destroyer
Unharnessed
Or perhaps just reinventing itself
Energy crystallizes into spinning orbs of light heat and matter
An infinite number of these orbs,

These stars and planets,
these building blocks of the tangible universe
These orbs spin and cool and solidify,
Our Earth cooled,
And the long process of formation,
For landscape and for mankind,
Began with an ironclad dichotomy of purpose.

Earth, Gaia, Mother Nature,
and
Man, Humankind, Intelligence, and Naivete

Life as it evolved on Earth gives the human race the edge.
An edge so sharp it can cut the very fabric of the planet on which the human race exists.
And at the time I write, this cut is fairly deep, and the rift has began to change
the planet.

Evolving with the speed of ignorance, humankind
Began to believe he was smarter than everyone else, including his neighbors,
Who always disagreed.

History proves one thing.
There were a couple or more paths travelling through history which
in retrospect shouldn't have been taken by anybody,
And these paths have driven the babbling incoherent explanations of the
Reasons behind why the masses travelled upon their disastrous ways
Into an unbearably doomed vision of a divided future,
Where nobody ever agrees.
In fact, the powerful have always been able to decimate the unbelievers.
History proves this.
Yet it's always repeating itself.

A cosmic lesson which never gets learned.
It's about time the teacher comes back into the classroom.

2003