Ephemeris

The world has become the way it is
Because long before the Mesozoic...
Mother nature, with her boil and fizz,
Was a cosmic sovereign rather stoic.
But then in the vastidity of time
She made love the realm of Goddess Venus,
That dominatrix of the lusty clime
In every procreative genus;
The public domain of pleasure and pain
And now the hotbed of the midnight mind
Where the nonce shadows of the threshold brain
Are evermore seeking those thoughts in kind,
Lurking, in the equatorium heart,
Pierced anon by Cupid's heavenly dart!