Once,In the middle of nowhereThere hid aTiny speck of dustSmaller thanThe smallest microbe.With all the playful energyThe miniscule pinprick contained,It couldn’t waitA single moment longerTo meet the worldAnd make new friends.SoThe tiny speck of dustExploded,Launching a showerOf vibrant reds,Oranges,And yellowsInto the swirl of gloom above.And that was howThe universe began.

Glamorous starsBlinked at each otherIn the inky night sky.Bits of cast off rock,Large and small,Sped around the starsLike race cars.

More and more rocks joined;The racetrack became too packedAnd the charging rocks collidedUntil gradually,Planet EarthEmerged from the chaos.

Back then,Our home planetWas a totally different world.Infuriated asteroids and meteoritesCrashed into theSimmering surface.

But planet EarthTired of its intense workout,Finally settled down,Falling into rhythmAround the sizzling sun.

All of a sudden,A stray ball of rockCame hurling through outer space,A furious untamed lionReady to devour all in its path.

But our newborn planetFought back,Cracking the foreigner into pieces,Sending a spurtOf dusty stoneInto the air.

But the fight was not over yet–Some of the stoneWas squashed into a ball,Forming ourNow dearest companion,The moon.

Sights of lifeFinally appeared on Earth.Molecules linked together,And as more joined,Began to makeReplicas of themselves.Membranes formedAround these moleculesBy fatty by-products.

And humans finally madeTheir first appearanceAs invisibleSingle-celled organisms.

This,Reader,Is how our dazzling universe,Full of all its stunning wonders,Came to be.