FIAT LUX III

               Marvel and amazement are the right
               Responses we should feel about all life,
               Appropriately expressing our delight
               That organisms of all sorts are rife
               On Earth and have evolved to human kind,
               Who have developed the capacity
               Of higher consciousness that we call mind,
               The element of all reality.
               Where we evolve from here, we may suppose
               And even make it our intended goal:
               A conscious evolution that then grows
               Toward what will make our broken species whole
                    For somehow we have wandered into error,
                    Who ought to be the Earth’s supreme light bearer.

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