The First Law (of Thermodynamics)

 

 

To touch this raw earth

Hold it as it sifts through my fingers

There is knowledge of an other ancient order

Prescribed so distant from the grasp

Of the Homo sapien intellect

As we destroy ourselves

She will, of course, thrive on

With or without recognition

Of the elements we’ve transfigured

So basic my gathered facts

Pieced into a virtual concept

That we already know

What is and what has to be done

Yet a common ignorance

Will still insure that which is begun