This book is history
This book everything in you and me

This book belongs to everyone
This book belongs to everyone
This book is as old as the universe
As young as a baby born this minute

This book is the story of all of us
The story we all write

Everyone gets their name in the action
The footnotes, the inlays, the margins

Full colour plates mixed with black and white sketches
From the minute to the infinite experience
This is the book of the creatures and the bones
Their DNA and traces fossilised in limestone

This is the book - the record in the rings
Of the weather back then, and did the songbirds sing?
This is the book of the creatures and the bones
Their DNA and traces fossilised in limestone

This is the book of life
Oh the story we all write

This book belongs to everyone
(This book is history)
This book belongs to everyone
(This book is everything in you and me)
This book belongs to everyone
This book belongs to everyone

© Claudia Robin Gunn