entwining like vines
DNA recycling
conserves salts
functioning
much as Earth reckons
programmed
by elements

on which we hold onto
for the independent
is a scarce thing
with entropy
lurking in every closet
tempting bunnies to mate,
socks to emigrate,
and breaking glasses
one drinks the world in with.

Something else within reach
glitters like Gold
but is a fish
we've come from trees
to swim with
and refresh memories
of distant holdings
as though fresh news

A world unto its own
whispers from the brook
hiding your splashing soul
that navigates streams of time
so that the lion merely
waves from distant shore
of this watery world,
belly left hungry
and carnage untold.

(an unknown secret)
in suffocating lands
of the stars
where we would need
life support
creating life, love, hope
with reducing, recycling, and reusing
most nearly every atom
in the scarcity of deep space

reflecting
by elements
entropy lurks,
creating scarcity
in a fish's life
in streams of time
through deep space and beyond