Evolution - Susannah McCorkle

We can travel to the planets

Drive a mile through solid granite

Thrive in all extremes of weather

But we cannot live together

We have pondered our existence

Tracked the comets in the distance

But we’re overcome with blindness

By an act of human kindness

We have ventured where

None have gone before us

But in matters fundamental

We are patterned on an old design

Welcome back Tyrannosaurus

Evolution is a state of mind

We have filled the halls of science

With the bones of mighty giants

They’d all been there for generations

Buried under our foundations

It’s a page right out of history

Everything is still a mystery

All except for one distinction

We can stop our own extinction

We have set ourselves apart

From all that’s gone before us

But in matters fundamental

We are victims of an old design

Here’s your chance Tyrannosaurus

Maybe we can get it right this time

Grab a club and join the chorus

Evolution is a state of mind