A BRIEF HISTORY OF WATER

6 4 Y A B R I E F H I S T O R Y O F W A T E R D A R Y L H I N E Omnipresent at the restoration of the planet, Life as we never knew it wells up from underground, And overwhelms us often to save us and surround, Unexpectedly, without a warning, almost without a sound, In silent rhapsodies, although you cannot scan it, Trickles and gushes to lie in lazy pools around The poles. It was the secret that began it, This transparent element in which we shall be drowned One dark and stormy day at the height of the revolution When the aristocratic waves will lose their white-crowned heads In the interest of accelerated evolution. As weary whirlpools return to their exhausted beds, In the aftermath of creation the world grew warm then hotter, Which soon will be what it was once, all water. ...