Breath

400 million years ago, at the time trees appear on earth so too, creatures of the sea. Surviving mass extinctions and super-continental fissures enough life remained. In the fullness of time, ocean creatures, swam upon the swash line, peeked above the water’s edge, beheld a distant horizon abundant with space time. Without understanding, A protean strength heaves a creature above the waters of the sea. Stretches its arches of pink gills as its white filaments ache, until tiny lungs bud bloom into the vivid air. Binocular vision evolves. Legs extend, arms flourish, creatures crawl, climb, walk. Amphibians, birds, mammals, all Become. Hominids mate. A baby emerges from its water world. In only a few seconds the infant gasps for air 400 million years in the making.