Toxic horizons

Pestilent holes

Mountains rain from the sky

Earth starts to freeze

Equator to poles

Nothing to do here but die

Bacteria

Choking themselves to extinction

Decaying to sulfurous slime

Purple the seas

Stagnant they lie

Reduced to hell without time

Until from the poisonous ooze

Two chemical archangels climb

The Gemini

Of collagen and oxygen

Microbes cluster together

Echo themselves toward the sun

Quietly emerge from the nether

Zombified eons expire

Ancient mycelium stirs

Awakens a stygian choir

Pulsating stenches

Soar from the trenches

Congregate, never to sever

Membranes unite

Excrete and divide

Transforming the planet forever

Third time's the charm

Breathe

And a paradigm plunges

Brought to its knees

By molds, fungi and sponges

Microbes cluster together

Echo themselves toward the sun

Quietly emerge from the nether

Zombified eons expire

Ancient mycelium stirs

Awakens a stygian choir

And then something else

Propels the cells

Away from death's erosion

Conjugates

Accelerates

The Cambrian Explosion

Shocked from slumber

Sways and lumbers

A reborn evolution

The wheel of hungers

Looms humongous

An unborn revolution

And one more time

In the slime

Cell walls groove

Things start to move

Red algae first

Then some worms

In the muck

Things start to fuck

One more tooth

Mouths that thirst

Drawn by light

Things start to bite

One more limb

One more eye

Claws that pry

Things start to die

One more spine

Things start to run

The ocean bursts

The hunt is on

An eon awakes

Fueled by a trillion demises

Ruin awaits

Looms in a million disguises

Predators start to crave more

Multiply as if possessed

To mutate to more lustrous shores

Magnified monsters aspire

Newborn spectacles stun

Exultant on wings of immortal desire