From The Womb Of Fire, Mastery Of Earth (1) Poem by Captain Cur

Before the last hope of mankind failed
Buried in the earth with unexpressed glory
His dreams that reached beyond heavenly scale
fester unrealized in purgatory.
Creation is but a thought, a story,
Miracles need truth and light to waken;
The seas, the skies, life are all transitory
With the very core of the earth shaken
And all the works of man violently overtaken.

In that time of ice, fire and thunder
Culled from the earth in the molten deep
It broke the crust and clawed up from under
While in its infancy began to creep;
Struggling breath, in lone horror to sleep,
In rock fire, in magma was it found
With a hissing madness felt its heart beat,
All about the lines of lava swirling round
As it dragged itself smoldering across the ground.

Now in the cooling age the wild winds sweep
And pause between the darkness and the dawn;
A vast deluge then formed the ocean deeps,
The screams of the birthing mountains raged on
In massive upheaval, land overthrown,
Chunks of earth forcefully hurled on high.
In this chaos the first dragon was born
And it shrieked and came forth with lucid eye
Then spread its wings and looked upward toward the sky.

In this maelstrom life fought, then was chosen,
Through the dragon's eye a new sky was seen
Inside that blueness clouds interwoven
That flowed above the massive forest greens.
A stillness settling, a world serene,
Oceans leveled, with shores halting their spread,
From heights and depths and all that lived between
Life amplifying power as it bred
In uncontained wilderness as the years were shed.

If ever a thing could become more fierce
Laying claim to the mountain ranges high
Or wield a heart no emotion could pierce
Oblivion staring at those who dared its eye,
In mastery of earth, wind, sea and sky.
The first wayward beams of the moon bled through,
Though still wan, not yet past its infancy,
Exposing itself through the cloudy gloom
Lit the earth and all creatures birthed within its womb.

The dragon flew gaining expectation
And pushed to heights which only nature knew,
Wondrous eyes ringed with fascination
Then broke in cloud bursts shattering the blue.
In a dive its speed and confidence grew
Until the land mass suddenly appeared
And snapped its wings and upward steady drew
Then rearing back above the earthly sphere
Winged in place breathing its first fire in the air.