Another place, another time <br />When the world was not possessed by man <br />And beast played but a minor part; <br />Evolution had not yet begun. <br />A molten earth, so lately hushed <br />When the grand explosion ceased, <br />Where water's gentle fingers stretched, <br />Across its blistered surface reached. <br />A sky so pure and deep and blue, <br />Where tumbling clouds like lovers rolled, <br />Wrestled and conceived and bore <br />With laboured groans on dusty plains <br />Of white cooled ash and sand and stone, <br />That necessary infant, Rain. <br />Silence kissed the sighing earth <br />Who moaned no more, ; breathed in relief, <br />For time cradled her within his hand. <br />Seas were seas and land was land. <br />Evolution had not yet begun. <br />...There was silence.<br /><br />Janet Mary Zylstra<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/silence-25/
