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 of 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 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 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