the celestial consciousness vehicle

rotates another cog and two teeth click into synchrony. hydrogen condenses and fuses, witness the birth of new elements, witness the first example of differing density, the first thing with mass composed of various elemental ingredients, the swelling balls of matter continuously sucking everything heavy in, blowing all else outward, hazy gaseous halos crowning pits of floating dark iron.

and then how miraculous, the first thing of matter that became able to replicate its structure uniformly and reliably! the first chemical collaboration that developed an inherent propensity to disperse itself, an ability to maintain a complex microenvironment sensitive to denaturation by its own native environment, a method by which to traverse spatially around its environment, a chain of reactions that allowed it to derive energy by metabolizing nutrients, a pathway that permitted the excretion of wastes back into the environment without compromising its susceptible inners, systems of communication both within between its own functioning parts and without between others of its kind!

and yet, as hard as this is to identify with, this is our legacy. we are of this stuff, and we overlook it both in ourselves and in everything alive around us everyday. just a passing concern.