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What is life, but our
very existence; because
we are here, there is
awareness of being,
of time and the elements
of the greatest mystery
of all, in that we
know: Out of nothing
came the grandeur of
existence when a sublime
spark of energy created
the chaos of sizzling
gases, molten rock and
metal to agonizingly
slowly coalesce, creating
within the vast space
of nothing something,
existing within time and
yawning infinity an
equally immense being
of substance hosted within
that great gaping expanse
without end, and from
some primordial gathering
of infinitely minute matter
the chemicals of life
quietly, insistently, stirred
and became the beginning
of being and life
and it is as we know it.