For every living creature in the sea

The mighty Whale, the small Anemone

The plankton, Sponge, and the Flat WormThe Horseshoe Crab, and every fish in the world

The Octopus and the Giant Squid

The Cuttlefish and the Nautilus

The Starfish and its strange body plan

The Hydra and all Cnidarians

Every Ring-tailed Lemur in the tree

The Orangutangs and the Chimpanzee

The Gorilla, Gibbons and the Bonobo

And every little Monkey that I know

Every singing Swallow and Chickadee

The Crow, the Magpie and the Starling

The Great Blue Heron and the Royal Swan

And little Duck in the pond

Heavy purple Hippos, and the Goat

Llamas, Giraffe, and the Rhino

And the other Even-Toed Ungulates

Plus the Odd-, and the Sub-, like elephants

The Goblin Sharks drifting ghostly

The Grizzly Bear hibernating

The winners of small town Rooster pageants

The Dusky Grouse and the Golden Pheasant

All the flightless birds of New Zealand

The happy Cows of Switzerland

The plentiful Canadian Goose

The rare Cozumel Raccoon

Salamanders and the Wild Boar

The Markhor with its horns of crooked sword

The Snow Leopard with its camouflage coat

Crocodile who patiently floats

We all came from the very same parents

Deep down by the hydrothermal vents

The elegant Monarch Butterfly

And its long journey to survive

The Zebra Muscles and their razor shells

The Tardigrade who could live in hell

The Glow Worms and their silky death traps

The Fireflies that light up forest paths

The Squirrels living in the big city

Along with Skunks, Bats, and Bees

The boreal forest Wolverine

The Salmon in fresh water streams

The Dragonflies with kaleidoscopic eyes

Opossums who play dead to stay alive

The Penguins all huddled from the cold

The giant Tortoise hundreds years old

The fuzzy Caterpillars in the yard

The Spider who lives in my car

We all came from the very same parents

Deep down by the hydrothermal vents

And branching over billions of years

So much life and hope and death and fear

I can′t preserve you all in a song

And all of us will only live so long