The Writers' Circle

The Egg's Way

In the beginning was The Egg 
Cosmic and Supreme
And The Egg created the light, the heavens and the earth
The days were long    And the days were years
And The Egg was alone and lonely
One day The Egg said: 
"Let there be eggs in my basic image!"
And there were eggs    The eggs reigned supreme
Single-celled organisms roaming free 
Like the amoeba shapeless as water 
Not needing the confines of a shell

And the days were long    And the days were years
And all the days    The eggs were in business
Of mitosis and cytokinesis 
And in the process    The inevitable
More complex multi-celled organisms 
Yearned to thrive 
One biblical day, The Egg said: 
"Let there be chicken!
Let the chicken be a hen!" 
And there was chicken. 

And the chicken was a hen 
That would bear the shell for the egg
As the egg could no longer roam free
To perform the functions
Of mitosis and cytokinesis 
For a more complex organism as the chicken
Still there was something missing . . .

And the days were long      And the days were years
And to make another egg - 
Yolk, white, shell and rigamarole -
Was too much work for the hen alone
Not much pleasure in the task
No love and appreciation 
So The Egg made the cocky rooster
To help out, give love and pleasure
And the rooster was the best egg the hen ever laid 
And the egg, hen and rooster 
All lived happily ever after . . .

One dark day, a doubting chicken asked in prayer
"Lord Egg, who is thy mother, the Hen?"
Lightning streaked   Criss-crossed the dark
And The Egg thundered
"The Egg is the beginning and the end
The hen is just The Egg's way to make another egg."



This poem is my comment to today's article (see link below) about the discovery by British scientists that " . . . a protein found only in a chicken's ovaries is necessary for the formation of the egg" and that "the egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken" - - claiming the definitive answer in the chicken-and-egg riddle;  when all they've proven is that the chicken is just the egg's way to make another egg.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38238685/ns/technology_and_science-science/?Gt1=43001