The random force that makes us what we are

Darwin discovered all of life is change,

nature determines who will win or lose.

What was the normal turns into the strange,

since life alone has any power to choose

what will remain, what beings stay alive,

are those alone with offspring that survive.

Spencer mistook all life to be at war,

for only warriors can overcome 

all challenges from those who stood before

but could not hear the beat of a new drum.

The ones who are determined, who have drive,

are those alone with offspring that survive.

Kropotkin told us that only those who share,

who aid each other against fear and chance,

with common love, and with enormous care,

working together manage to advance,

we in communities that grow and thrive 

are those alone with offspring that survive.

Mendel found out the way nature must take

to choose the ones that find the way to reach

the pathway that provides the chance to make

the moves that will give them the power to breach

the barriers, and take the needed dive,

are those alone with offspring that survive.

Watson and Crick gave us the machine 

with which Dame Nature throws the magic dice

that activates the necessary gene,

able to win the race at lowest price.

So we, who could the best of change contrive,

are those alone with offspring that survive.

Thus all who learn to dance, and swing, and jive,

are those alone with offspring that survive.