Historical Valentine

Before the sun god
had sunk to the level
of pictures on pottery
he was first another
up and comer a theory
it was said in a wide
sea of ophthalmologists
which one by one he
succeeded in scattering
a condition he aspired to
like the original spring
for which each subsequent spring
was merely a substitute teacher
until he put his whole
body into it and pushed and
the infant earth popped out