A
double helix chain of DNA, molecules and atoms too.
It
took sperm and an egg commingling biologically,
a
9-month period of gestation and years after that
in
the making.
It
took condensed milk and pablum,
diapers
changed.
It
took Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger and Bullet,
a
book of Dick and Jane.
It
took turning over, crawling on hands and
knees,
a first step and all the rest to follow.
It
took numerous stumbles and falls along the way.
It
took Ms. Frances at Ding-Dong School and
Captain
Kangaroo, the Little Rascals and Three Stooges.
It
took PF Flyers and Lee Jeans, pairs of Buster
Brown
Shoes.
It
took a thorn bush, a hot skillet and a bee sting,
so
many noxious and toxic things.
It
took nuns and lay teachers along the way.
It
took the US Army to reshape.
It
took gallons of vodka and brandy to inebriate,
AA
to reform and rehabilitate.
It
took tens of thousand yesterdays and only one day
at
a time.
It
took misfortune, laziness and hard work, some anger,
some
remorse and a measure of compassion and love.
It
took a bunch of random luck more than planning,
failures
and successes, a lot of hit and miss,
I
can emphatically tell you that.
It
took magnifcent vistas at home and abroad, many
roads
leading astray and home again.
I
could go on for years listing everything it has taken
to
get me here as I live and breathe at age 73.
It
could take some time yet to enumerate all which it
shall
continue to take for the remainder of my days.
Now
here’s the part which should blow your mind
as
it has mine:
It
took a Big Bang, the birth of the Cosmos as we
know
it,
Nearly
14-billion years and the Stuff of Stars from
Super
Nova explosions.
It
took an Earth formed from the collision
and
compression of granular-sized particles in space
to
make the curmudgeonly and wobbly old me I have
come
to be.
And
more likely than not, having known you along the
way
had something profound to do with it as well.
-30-
Chris
Hanch 7-25-2020
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