the existence which is you
let's contemplate the obvious
and the overlooked, understanding
that your life has an unfolding of conditioning,
of circumstances and conditions which have come together
to create the existence which is you: an infinite, unknowable
number of conditions which have converged to create
the existence which is you
like an entire universe, the entire universe
has had to come into existence for you to exist
and this world, this planet, which rests like a jewel
of blue against the jeweler's cloth of the black night
sky scattered as if with the dust of so many diamonds,
the stars sparkling in the sky, this jewel of a planet
had to come into existence, before you emerged
the existence which is you
when measured by scientists, in the ways
in which they measure things, 4.543 billion years,
that's how long it took, 4,543 million years, for this planet
to go through a transformation, to go from a molten ball of lava,
to go from a primordial soup with single-cell organisms, to evolve
into fish, and then into creatures on land, and then into you
this is what has had to occur for "you" to become
the existence which is you
circling a ball of fire in the sky, 1.3 million times larger
than this planet on which we ride, the sun, the center of our
universe, continuously burning despite the fact that there is no
oxygen in space, and everything we know about fire here on earth
is that fire needs oxygen to burn, all of this occurring on a galactic scale
as we hurtle through space at 67,000 miles per hour, circling around this
ball of fire, while simultaneously spinning at 1,000 miles per hour, this is how
our days our created, this is how our lives were created,
this is what had to occur and has to occur, for
the existence which is you
on a galactic scale, celestial, without beginning nor end
that we can perceive, a phenomenon so vast it is beyond our perception,
beyond our comprehension, how something can exist without ever having begun,
and if it did begin, then what did it begin into, this ball of fire which is the sun
bringing warmth to the cauldron of life which is our planet, onto which you
have emerged, all of this and so much more which we do not understand
having had to occur to give rise, to give rise, to give rise to
the existence which is you
so cavalier, we have been, taking so much for granted,
and complaining so easily about such petty gripes, when
an apple alone is enough to boggle one's consciousness
and to bring one fully weeping to one's knees, in wonderment
and gratitude for the existence which has been given to each of us,
for the existence that has defied all probability
in giving rise to these words, for
the existence which is you
