Snowball Earth by Gregory Christiano

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The earth nearly died between 800 to 700 million years ago. There was a great deep-freeze which lasted 200 million years and almost wiped out every living thing. The only life to survive were bacteria, primitive plants and algae all growing near volcanic vents at the bottom of the oceans. If life did not redeem itself, we could have been a snowball hurtling through space for eternity. We came that close to total, permanent, mass extinction. Phew, just think about it!
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Seven hundred million years ago the earth was near to death,
The planet was a sheet of ice, a thousand miles depth.
But lo! There creatures clung to life, defying all of fate,
Surviving near the ocean floor - tubers to create.
The planet, conscious of its doom, rebounded on its own,
It struggled bravely to grab hold, and weave its soul alone!
The rocks, the sky, the waters moaned in one determined cry,
To turn the tide and there survive and from death's door defy.
This planetary, indwelling soul ascribed to sentient life,
Inhabits now for all of us, and guards us like a wife!
The planet's strength is in its core, for Nature's heart is there,
This animist, possessed of life, to keep us in its care.

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by Gregory Christiano (Age: 61)
copyright 07-17-2003

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