THE STORY OF WATER

PREMBLE

What am I?      

You are a water baby my dear

Where do I come from?

That’s a long story

Please tell me!

Okay . . . Hmm

INTRODUCTION

This is the story of heaven and earth

The story of life of death and rebirth

It’s the story of you, It’s the story of me

It’s the story of nature and all history

It’s the heartwarming story of hot meeting cold

It’s the most wonderful story that’s ever been told 

It’s the story of water, the liquid solution

The matrix of life that drives evolution

The drop and the ocean 

The splash and the stream

The ultimate solvent

The well in our being

WATER

This story began a long time ago

Around a sun with a planet where water could flow 

In the Goldilocks’s zone, with an orbit ‘just right’

Water formed liquid and gave rise to life

It started with ice crystals hurling through space

Flung through the cold from a far distant place

Colliding with water in super-hot form

Swirling in magma on a planet being born

Hot lava and ice burst into the sky

Jets of fire and steam rose ten thousand feet high 

Yet gravity stopped it escaping to space

And the earth’s atmosphere simply fell into place

Then the earth’s molten core spun a protective shield

That blocked cosmic rays with its magnetic field

And as the world became cloudy water spread all around

Moving between the sky and the ground

Then, for the very first time, on an uncertain date

Hot mixed with cold in the warm liquid state

And as steam cooled to droplets they rained from the sky

For thousands of years no place was left dry

Water covered the earth and soaked into the ground

Hot water welled up, cool water rained down

And as cold water sank to the deep ocean floor

It met vents of hot water laden with ore

Then under great pressure and with a sulphorous smell

Warm water became ‘Intelligent gel’

Liquid chemistry cooked up organic goop

Feeding the oceans primordial soup

Around pieces of clay water held in-form-ation

Birthed function and form it was life’s first creation

THE STORY OF WATER CONTINUES WITH AN ACCOUNT OF

THE EVOLUTION OF INVERTEBRATES AS THEY GO FROM GELS TO CELLS AND ORGANELLES, SEXUAL CELLS AND SHELLS AND

THE EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATES AS THEY GO FROM SCALES, TO SKIN, TO FEATHER, TO FUR, TO FASHION.