Baby's Tale
A reflection on innocence, beginnings, and the fragile spark of new life. Baby’s Tale explores purity, destiny, and the quiet forces that shape the newborn before violence and coercion come to dictate.
BABY'S TALE
I am but a novice to life gifted to Mother Earth
A seed has been sowed which engendered my birth
Where is it that I come from, where is it that I go ?
I see a father and mother that I seem to know
Who utter curious noises throughout the day
How am I expected to understand what they say ?
I cry I puke I give free reign to my bowels
But I still can’t make heads or tails of their consonants and vowels
A biped species that seems to deambulate at ease
Whereas I am condemned to my hands and knees
At first I appear to be the Apple of their eye
For my attention the begetters commence to vie
Shouting, despising and then a deafening silence
I’m starting to understand the notion of violence
I cry I puke I give free reign to my bowels
But I still can’t make heads or tails of their consonants and vowels
Today I’m dressed up as beau soldier boy blue
If I’m good I’ve been promised a toy brand new
‘Daddy’ ‘Mummy’ which first word shall I pluck ?
The one I’ve most heard which happens to be ‘Fuck’
Proud of my utterance, a foreword of fame
My bewildered elders then cower with shame
I cry I puke I give free reign to my bowels
But I still can’t make heads or tails of their consonants and vowels
I stutter I stumble trying to righten my pegs
I tremble I endeavour to manage my legs
Why bother to forgo movement upon all fours ?
Yet rhyme & reason urge to obey the laws
The stage is set ready steady go
Paws crumble again, audience in woe
I cry I puke I give free reign to my bowels
But I still can’t make heads or tails of their consonants and vowels
Raised from the chariot I start to hobble carefree
I hasten to chase after the winged bumble bee
A playground so vast a paradise to be seen
Scintillating colours, red gold and green
I cannot resist the temptation of the red of fire
For which I am scolded by my genitors’ ire
I cry I puke I give free reign to my bowels
But I still can’t make heads or tails of their consonants and vowels
Pulled between pater and mater, pushed from pillar to post
I’m beginning to understand the teachings of our host
Innocence is despised in the home sweet home
To the four corners of the world wherever you roam
Moral dogmas are predicated through false pretences
By folk and for folk who have lost leave of their senses
No more will I cry, puke, give reign to my bowels
Cos I’m gettin jiggy wit dem diddy consonants & vowels.
INSPIRATION - BABY'S TALE
Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post, I am driven, it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me
I’ll learn to love the life of the ‘Could I, Could I, Could I’
The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), or lunar cataclysm, is a hypothesized event thought to have occurred approximately 4.1 to 3.8 billion years (Ga) ago, at a time corresponding to the Neohadean and Eoarchean eras on Earth. According to the hypothesis, during this interval, a disproportionately large number of asteroids collided with the early terrestrial planets in the inner Solar System, including Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. In the Nice model, the Late Heavy Bombardment is the result of a dynamical instability in the outer Solar System. The original Nice model began with the Solar System’s giant planets in a tight orbital configuration surrounded by a rich trans-Neptunian belt. Objects from this belt stray into planet-crossing orbits, causing the orbits of the planets to migrate over several hundred million years. Jupiter and Saturn’s orbits drift apart slowly until they cross a 2:1 orbital resonance, causing the eccentricities of their orbits to increase. The orbits of the planets become unstable and Uranus and Neptune are scattered onto wider orbits that disrupt the outer belt, causing a bombardment of comets as they enter planet-crossing orbits. Interactions between the objects and the planets also drive a faster migration of Jupiter and Saturn’s orbits. This migration causes resonances to sweep through the asteroid belt, increasing the eccentricities of many asteroids until they enter the inner Solar System and impact the terrestrial planets. The encounters between planets that follow include one between an ice giant and Saturn that propels the ice giant onto a Jupiter-crossing orbit followed by an encounter with Jupiter that drives the ice giant outward. This jumping-Jupiter scenario quickly increases the separation of Jupiter and Saturn, limiting the effects of resonance sweeping on the asteroids and the terrestrial planets. The ice giant is often ejected following its encounter with Jupiter, leading some to propose that the Solar System began with five giant planets. The Planet V hypothesis posits that a fifth terrestrial planet caused the Late Heavy Bombardment when its meta-stable orbit entered the inner asteroid belt. The hypothetical fifth terrestrial planet, Planet V, had a mass less than half of Mars and originally orbited between Mars and the asteroid belt. Planet V’s orbit became unstable due to perturbations from the other inner planets causing it to intersect the inner asteroid belt. After close encounters with Planet V, many asteroids entered Earth-crossing orbits, causing the Late Heavy Bombardment. Planet V was ultimately lost, likely plunging into the Sun.