The diversity of life

Including things

That are still living

And the things

That already went extinct –

Indicates one trend universal

That nature is busy with its rehearsal

In its trial

To shape and reshape

Life

With so many forms that it can take

And in so many different ways

That it can behave.

 

From amoeba to humans

And everything in between

That went

And that still remains

The possibilities are endless,

As the drive to try new things

Is relentless.

 

All kinds of plants and all kinds of trees

So many different ants and so many kinds of bees.

From the Mongolians to the Mohicans

And from the atheists to the Anglicans.

African Saharas and the Amazonian forests

Mojave Desert Death Valley and the deep see vents.

Some form of life is crawling walking or swimming

As nature for its rehearsal

Keeps on dreaming planning and weaving.

 

Such beautiful designs

With such melodious tunes and rhymes

To watching eyes and listening ears

There are plenty of clues in the chimes

And plenty of reasons for their cheers.

 

When facing failure

Nature knows how to tailor

Its tricks and its tools,

And using clever rules

Mastered in its own schools

It is able to solve –

The problems and obstacles

That are involved,

So that some new species

Can again evolve.

 

At the root of this success

And of the complexity and of the mixes

Is the structure of DNA and its functions

That gives rise to life and to all of its actions.

 

With four different letters

Arranged in a linear fashion,

With limitless combinations,

Life has been coded –

Which after studying

With trials and muddying

Humans have decoded.

 

Proteins are large molecules

Which are the most essential tools

That are needed to build any form of life.

Their structures and actions

Control all the reactions

Inside,

And thus dictate how we live

And how we survive.

 

Proteins are what DNA is designed to code

As apps for life in cells machinery it loads

Output are proteins of different kinds,

And when

With their functions and structures they align –

Life itself

Is the final product,

With all the diversity

In its shelf

With all its different constructs.

 

We humans like to think

That we may be the ultimate thing

That nature tried to create.

But do we really know

Where it may want to go

And what new things

It may want or try to initiate?

By,

Kris Mojag

Written somewhere in California in one early morning in September of 2021.