The Oldest Water

Some water tastes colder

Been rattling through time

Flowing through bodies

Up into the sky

The oldest known water

Found deep in a mine

Spent billions of years

Bubbling in brine

Miles below rock

That old ocean flowed

Full of microscopic creatures

All together and all alone

So close to the edge

So close to the great divide

The first living cell

Growing fat in the shallows

Met the first stranger

When it split down the middle

But once made separate

There's no going home

Water loves melting

And flesh eats alone

So close to the edge

So close to the great divide