Conceive

The Solar System and our Planet begin. Can you conceive Of a time more than four billion years ago Can you conceive Of a mass of gas and clouds of dust Collapsing Contracting Can you conceive Of a rotating solar nebula Can you conceive Of a stormy center forming proto-sun The sun The Sun is born A star A sun is born a star A sun is born a star A shining glistening star A sun is born a star Can you conceive Of rocks Made of matter cooked in distant stars Billions of years ago Exploding Colliding The Earth The Earth is born A planet A planet of rocks Quartz is formed. Sand and water and air Forms so easily It grows This one's the color of space Space is its father Black as the night of space Night is its mother This one's as white as the stars Stars are its father White as the milk of the stars White is its mother This one's the yellow of sunlight Sunlight its father Golden it shines in the sunlight Light is its mother This one's the color of roses This one's the color of roses This one's the color of roses Before there were roses There were rocks The color of roses