Wide-Eyed Children

mother star beams as she beholds her errant brood six diverse, rocky planets the innermost, a dense, two-faced, frosty furnace the outermost, pulverised much interfered with by a jovial neighbour a dust, angry red one ragged, rift-valley scar, an enormous pimple the atmosphere diminished the bright but secretive one, clouds of deception concealed runaway heating ........ the other two, calamitous and extraordinary individual but fatally curious they spiral close together so wild and wayward, eager and elliptical a deadly orbiting kiss the smaller sibling is stunned, shattered and shaken mass and momentum reduced memory wiped, coalesced, captured and condemned demoted, demented moon gravity bound, bombarded, heavily cratered transfixed, compelled to witness ........ magical mayhem convulsing the tidal companion condensing from surface to core, dynamic orb almost melting, transforming a rhythmic magnetic field protecting, shielding convection and subduction radioactive warmth, magma, mantel and crust moving land, oceans and ice coriolis-driven storms and chemical soup then strange organic matter evolution, what's this? pin-prick lights, tickling feet the moon has a grinning smile ........ from a mini-module, some wide-eyed children have come to play canny creatures, evolved, programmed, launched to survive trial and error beings hopeful genes to be nurtured, cuddled, teased and taught transcendent and emergent complex beyond their parts, the planet's pinnacle challenging older orders the chains of certainty, imbecilic greatness time-surfing on nature's wave promoting intelligence, compassion and love bathed in envious moonlight ........ for mother star knows that her wide-eyed children may leave one day