A smile, a laugh, a grin

A frown, a yell, a sob

How we do and feel

Millions of animals

Billions of years of evolution

An arm, reaching

For a gold-encrusted knob

The door, to another place

Leading to another time

Before you and I

When the first molecules

Began to make life

A breath in

All is still

Then a quiet exhale

Life is starting

From a land barren but rock and water

There came life

Out of nothing

 

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