It has been a long time
that I’ve been sitting here,
thinking about you.
There are things
that I can’t
wrap my mind around,
and you elude me
all the time.
I wonder at the
confluence of events
that made you,
not just in your life,
but in the universe.
The odds of this reality
creating someone like you
are astronomical;
you’re so unlikely.
Never mind arranging
all your atoms
in the right place.
All those amino acids,
proteins,
and chemical reactions
that make you,
‘You’.
Coupled with the fact
that we can travel
off-world,
but don’t understand
consciousness;
it’s amazing
that you are here at all,
and you’re so smart,
funny and strangely beautiful.
I think it might
even be fair to say
that you are a miracle.
So rare,
and odd,
and precious.
An inexplicable being,
and here you are,
in real life.
Then, I get to wondering,
if all things are equal,
and I hate to hope
if rationality excludes,
but if you are,
a miracle,
then maybe
I could be
a miracle, too.
HG – 2021
