Friday, February 9, 2024

A Place in Time


Had George and Bettie


not gotten together at a


specific time and place,


in this 13.8 billion year


time span, I may have


never been.



Had I been named Bob or


Bruce a year earlier or latter,


I as Christopher would likely


not be speaking to you right


now.



Think how the trillions of


stars in the Cosmos had to


align just right to form the


cellular conglomerate


creating the likes of you


and me individually.


Nothing short of incom-


prehensibly plausible, I


recon. Why, what were


the odds of a life suppor-


ting planet such as Earth


having coalesced in the


expansive universal


clutter to evolve and


harbor a species such


as ours?



Genetically, I may have


been born an opossum,


a pin oak tree, an Alex-


ander the Great or a


Thomas Edison in a


different place and time.



Ah, but here I am,


the wonder of me


speaking to the wonder


of you about this


unfathomable hodge-


podge Cosmic Soup.


Could have been


otherwise, don’t


you know?



            -30-


Chris Hanch 2-9-2024



 

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