The world was watery when life emerged.
We know this, though it’s not what all believe.
Life reproduced evolving and diverged,
and some of its creations grew to leave
the oceans. Dolphins stayed though breathing air,
while landed mammals lived by thumb and word.
It may be dolphins opted to be there,
foreseeing life on land become absurd.

A scientist once postulated such,
but he was disregarded – he allowed
he used some acid. His ideas were much
abused, but no one since has better plowed
that furrow. Like a dolphin, I am reckoning
the present beats the future that is beckoning.