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Earth's Clocks
It’s twelve o’clock and Earth began last night,
She sang and danced while flying through the air.
The clocks of Earth began to turn with might,
In seven hours life began to flare.
At first with organisms single-celled,
Then jelly fish and worms came finally.
A tick tock after nine p.m. was belled,
The more complex ones shifted from the sea.
The clocks are spinning like a carousel,
The dinosaurs and mammals just appeared.
By half past ‘leven Dinos say farewell,
The last but longest second to be feared
Arrived humanity, and with its birth,
Creative thought, its toll upon the Earth
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This is a poem that I wrote in 7th grade for English, then put to the tune of ¨Bravado¨ by Lorde and sang in Science class. I had just started to think of ideas that bewildered me, one of them being how long the earth has been alive compared the time that humans had lived here, and the short span of our lifetimes. Some trouble that we face for a day would not count as anything in the whole span of Earth. Feedback is welcome. Enjoy!