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Still it is time that comprised the vital piece 
That sets the stage for the players to animate 
To what end could they know to act 
No sign of a guide....or a hand 
To disprove and to undo a point of fact 
Evidence suggests explosion of life 

From initial footprints onto land 
Treading steps steeped in the basest microbial crud 
Naked hills surround a barren shore 
Invasion comes, like never before: 
first rulers of the Earth 

Think - of the loneliness and the silence, 
found....by those trailblazing few 
Pioneers in a new.....frontier, colonising emptiness 
Potential patiently waits, in the dark 
Rapid emergence in the grand scheme 

The greening of the planet to a familiar state 
Coasting, inexorable, powered by fate 
Ancient forests born in Devonian soil 
For the first time, defined, this mortal coil 

In spineless mode, courage grew a backbone 
Yet in the end all clades will fade and turn to dust 
and then (they will) be gone 
The rise and fall of all species 
Follow the natural order’s consequence 
All fates lead to fossilised rock 

Eternal war for balance 
In a battle toward symbiosis 
So much progress gained 
But the lurking threat ever present 
A slow chokehold building 
The Permian-Triassic wall