by Steven Faivus, 2011

Essential

Fundamental

Food’s basic

Molecule

Sun

Light

Caught in 

A molecule

Photosynthesis

Look at this

Plants make their own food

Photosynthesis

(Break down)

Water up roots 

bathed in sunlight 

Breaks water bonds

That’s all right

Sun breaks bonds 

of H20

H’s stay in 

O’s know just where to go 

for plants 

oxygen 

is a 

toxin 

plant breathes out 

oxygen 

which animal 

Breathes in

With a bray 

And a grin 

Plant Holds 

hydrogen 

breathes out 

the oxygen 

oxygen 

animal breathe in 

to break down 

food eaten

Plant breathe out 

oxygen 

keeps the 

hydrogen 

to make its food 

it breathes 

CO2 in 

Plant mixes

Positive hydrogen

With its breathed in 

Carbon dioxide

Makes glucose

Simple sugar

Brings food

Into the system

C6 H12 O6

No tricks

Straight mix

Of the water’s 

Stripped H’s 

And the inhaled

CO-2

Plant knows

Just what to do

Mixes the stripped H’s

With inhaled CO-2

animal exhales 

CO two 

plants breathe it in 

that's what they do

Mix it with 

the H protons 

to make the carbs 

we all live on

Food enters this 

photosynthesis 

what is this 

photosynthesis 

animal eats the plant 

with energy stored 

breathe in 

oxygen 

to break the food down

Photosynthesis 

look at this 

plants makin’ their own food photosynthesis

With water and sunlight 

and C-O-2

plants know 

just what to do 

Breaks the water molecule 

Uses sun’s photons 

breathes out the oxygen 

and holds the hydrogen

Photosynthesis 

look at this 

plants making food 

photosynthesis 

water up 

into the roots 

glorious water 

ringer of moods 

into the roots 

water rises 

for all life 

water fills the cup 

water’s golden 

sparkling cup

Brings food

Into life

To the 

chlorophyll 

little green pill 

whose chambers 

waters fill 

in streams 

sunlight 

primeval sight 

red alert tears 

water molecules apart

Breaks waters bond 

without a fight     

H’s stay 

O’s are breathed away 

animal breathe in 

the oxygen 

Toxic to the plant 

oxygen 

animals need it 

so they breathe it in

Toxic to the animals 

C02 

animals need 

so breathe it in too 

animals and plants 

cosmic dance 

one man's floor 

is another’s ceiling 

toxic to one 

provides fundamental healing

Plants exhale 

what animals inhale 

and animals exhale 

what plants inhale 

one’s waste 

the other’s taste 

plant’s poison 

oxygen 

animals must breathe in 

animal’s poison 

CO2 

plants must breathe that in 

To make their food

Plant breathes out

Oxygen

Which the animal breathes in

For its digestion

Sounds like love 

sounds like they 

need each other 

sounds like balance 

the exhale of one 

is the other’s inhale 

but why does the animal 

need oxygen? 

To combust 

The plant’s food 

which the animals eat

And why do the plants 

need CO2?

to make the planet’s 

fundamental food 

plant uses light 

to separate  

The water’s H2O spout

H’s stay in

O’s go out

Plant creates out

Oxygen

From before:

Rain to roots

water in

oxygen

and two hydrogen

Plant

drinks it in

when it can

Sunlight’s

energy

separates the water

in the tree

Plants breathe out

oxygen

from the water

the roots took in

H’s stay in

O’s go out

that's what

plant breath’s about

Plant breathes out

oxygen

to burn its food

dog breathes it in

Oxygen in

CO2 out

that's what

the dogs lung’s about

Oxygen

breaks down food

then turns into

CO2

Oxygen

breaks down nutrients

into CO2

is where it went

Oxygen

breaks down nutrients

into CO2’s

where the carbon went

Carbon comes out

of the nutrient

onto the oxygen

is where it went

Plants breathe in

CO2

to make their food

that's what they do

H’s mix

with CO2

Krepp cycle

knows what to do

small short-term storage

use ATP

make carbohydrate

for a longer spree

Photosynthesis

look at this

plants making food

photosynthesis

Sunlight 

breaks the water

during the night

she finishes her

into ATP and

carbohydrate

Sun's energy 

the plants ate

Transformation

revolution

plants propelled

evolution

Plants made the

oxygen

which the first animals

breathe again

Green beginning

without sending

Took a rock

floating in space

to an oasis

with  a living face

Animals and

plants

a primal dance

500 million years trance

Circumstance

imagine the beauty

imagine

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis

Look at this

Plants make food

Photosynthesis

Water, CO-2

Sunlight

Plants make food

Day and night

Photosynthesis

Look at this

Plants make food

Photosynthesis

(Plant starts

to make its food

by drinking water

up its root)

(moving against

gravity

the droplet rises

through the tree)

(Up droplet

arbol route

reach green

spring’s sprout)

(finally) reaching

its final home

water enters

the chlorophyl room)

(the chloroplast’s womb)

light receiver

chlorophyl

food giver

chlorophyl

fundamental organelle

of life’s jubilation

the foundation of

this situation

H-2-O goes

Up the root

Plant uses sun(light)

to make its food

Plant separates

H-2-O

Keeps H

for sap flow

To separate H’s and O’s

Light’s in use

O’sre breathed out

2-by-2’s

The Oxygen 

Plants breathe out

Animals breathe in

Through their its snout

Oxygen in

CO-2 out

That’s what

The lung’s about

Animal 

respiration

to CO-2

expiration 

Animal breathes out

CO-2

plants breathe it in

That’s what they do

Plant mixes

H, C and O 

To make the life

We all know

Carbohydrate

Living fate

Plants make the food

for life’s base

Plants and animals

One undeniably sees

From the exhale of one

The other one breathes

What one breathes out

The other breathes in-

How did this 

Relationship begin?

Photosynthesis

Look at this

Plants make food

Photosynthesis