Take a few
minutes to think about this:
Before dawn
you step outside to see Mercury
On the
horizon lighted by the approaching sun.
Overhead,
Venus and Jupiter shine brightly
Above in the
heavens, all worlds millions upon
Millions of miles
from Earth. Now consider
Nearly
fifteen billion years earlier, the Big Bang
Of creation
if you will. And later, the billions
Upon
billions of super novae explosions, a uni-
verse
expanding, the galactic clusters formed
From
gathering accreted swirls of cosmic dust.
It took
almost 10-billion years for the Earth to
Find its
rightful place in a newly formed solar
System of
the Milky Way, just one galaxy among
Billions and
billions known swirling in the cosmos
Today. Consider
the heating and the cooling, the
Bombardment
of our planet by asteroids and com-
ets.
Consider the collisions of planetesimals bat-
tling it out
for orbital supremacy circling the sun.
(Now things
are really, really getting serious.) I
Could go on
and on with this, so let’s jump ahead
And get
closer to the point. Once the Earth was
Capable of
supporting life as we know it, millions
Upon
millions of years ago, it wasn’t until some
Two-hundred
thousand years past that we, mo-
dern man evolved
from the primordial soup. How
Many volcanic
eruptions, plant and animals decay-
ing,
wind-blown dust storms, torrential rains,
Puddles of
mud created and evaporated did it take,
How many millennia
of seasons before just the right
mixture of
all the elements ever separated and coa-
lesced, how
many atoms split and rearranged through-
out this
vast expanse of universal time and space
Did it take
to bring your conscious being and mine
To light, to
place me here and now, writing this very
Piece, and
you somewhere out there in your very
Own place
and time reading these very lines? It’s all
Either a
grand cosmic joke or a damn bloody miracle.
Think of it,
and what we’ve been through just to get
Here, you
and I. Look up at the sky and wonder, how
On Earth…?
Chris
Hanch 10-13-15
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