WAVE ON WAVE
by Gladys
Titanic power, wave on wave
of iridescent green to blue
and every shimmering hue between.
Reflective of a fishing hook;
you crook, curve, cast a bronzed Adonis
towards me on the strand;
and wash my murky dreams
With gilded seaspray
Bright in golden sunlight.
Once upon a time you gripped the earth
in tortuous vice of squealing ice;
then Diana tossed, turned the tide,
dipping down inside your Jang and Jin
to impart a softer, gentler melting heart
which bore
that first amoeba,
and cast it on lifes' eager shore.
Now, you nurture creatures in your secret deep
which eat, sleep, co-exist - in order to survive.
They do not thrive - on war, power or greed.
For these they have no need.
Yet man, infant of the evolutionary chain,
impels from early cave to watery grave,
His learning still to gain
Will Nature and the Universe conspire,
to balance our polarities with flood and fire
as, with indecent haste,
we commit ourselves to another frozen waste,
If universal laws of responsibility and cause
we choose to bend
do we compute and programme certain end
thus for our sins,
self-condemned
we wait - until once more it all begins.
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