Natural Science

I. Tide Pools
 When the ebbing tide retreats
 Along the rocky shoreline
 It leaves a trail of tidal pools
 In a short-lived galaxy
 Each microcosmic planet
 A complete society
 A simple kind mirror
 To reflect upon our own
 All the busy little creatures
 Chasing out their destinies
 Living in their pools
 They soon forget about the sea...
 Wheels within wheels
 In a spiral array
 A pattern so grand
 And complex
 Time after time
 We lose sight of the way
 Our causes can't see
 Their effects
 II. Hyperspace
 A quantum leap forward
 In time and in space
 The universe learned to expand
 The mess and the magic
 Triumphant and tragic
 A mechanized world, out of hand
 Computerized clinic
 For superior cynics
 Who dance to a synthetic band
 In their own image
 Their world is fashioned ---
 No wonder they don't understand
 Wheels within wheels
 In a spiral array
 A pattern so grand
 And complex
 Time after time
 We lose sight of the way
 Our causes can't see
 Their effects
 III. Permanent Waves
 Science, like Nature
 Must also be tamed
 With a view towards its preservation
 Given the same
 State of integrity
 It will surely serve us well
 Art as expression ---
 Not as market campaigns
 Will still capture our imaginations
 Given the same
 State of integrity
 It will surely help us along
 The most endangered species ---
 The honest man
 Will still survive annihilation
 Forming a world ---
 State of integrity
 Sensitive, open, and strong
 Wave after wave
 Will flow with the tide
 And bury the world as it does
 Tide after tide
 Will flow and recede
 Leaving life to go on
 As it was...