State of the Planet

Many life lessons can be seen throughout this interesting poem. To begin with, the poem is both scholarly since the author speaks on many various scientific terms and yet the author has presented the poem in such a way that the reader does not feel as if they are reading a scholarly journal or some sort, but rather the "life" within our planet. Nevertheless the first implication of a life lesson would have to be that life itself is full of wonderment and all of nature, including the subatomic particles that make up all of creation, is wonderful to behold since as the author put it "it must be a gift of evolution that humans can't sustain wonder. We'd never have gotten up from our knees if we could." Another simple life lesson that can be seen throughout the poem is that we can either use our minds for the good of creation or destroy what is present today. This is seen when the author makes a list in stanza six of various things in life that came from the foundations of DNA. A rather funny life lesson that can be seen in the poem is that life can not come from rocks in the Mexican desert. But a profound aspect that the author presented that can be taken as a life lesson is that the questions of why life exists is up to poets and priests, or rather ministers. Nevertheless, even though this poem is presented from a scientific view, any reader can take from this poem a simple life lesson that life, matter what form it is, is unique and complex and should be taken care of for the continuation of the human race. Now coming from a Biblical view this poem can be walked away from with a smile knowing that despite how complex and wondrous this world is, Christians can safely know that God is in control and He is watching over the earth.