It took dust from exploded stars, water,
oxygen, hellfire energy, through five mass
extinctions and four billion years for you
and me, for all humankind to get here.
It has been biologically a long road to hoe,
and who knows how much longer we have
to go?
Originally, we all came from the same place,
each of us uniquely modeled, fashioned from
our inherited and specific DNA.
Scientifically remarkable, almost unbelievable.
Intriguing, our melding, developments and
meanderings anthropologists would say.
By the gods (some will claim), surely scientifically
along with the mysterious twists of fates, we are
here today. As for the future, who on Earth, but
the Earth can say?
Allow me to take your photograph right here
and now. On borrowed time, today is all we
have; come hell, high water and climate change,
tomorrow may be too late.
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Chris Hanch 12-29-2021
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