Non-Theistic Psalm #1: Composed 2018-02-11 in the early morning hours.
All the animals and all the plants
Come from a common ancestor.
Less than four billion years ago
Lived the life from which we all sprung.
Time went on. We evolved our own ways
But still we’re together in a web of life
Powered by the sun that gives heat and light
The light that lands on the leaves of plants.
It is with this light that the plants make the food
By which they feed all the heterotrophs.
And by the same light the oxygen is freed
Which the leaves of the plants then release to the air.
In the few billion years since our shared ancestor
We still haven’t grown entirely apart,
For though we’ve taken so many forms
Only by the web of life are we sustained.
