from the dust of stars
primordial — atomic
pulses of being
you formed at some point
at least your particles did
traveling their path
were you there when life
began? — do your molecules
whisper — ‘impetus’?
and were you ever
glacier bound — then sublimate?
have you flowed in streams?
did you ever course
through our ancestors’ veins ?— heart?
or fall as a tear?
have you parted from
my lips as a breath — vapor?
just an atom? — spec?
now — you coalesce
beneath the aether — you are
cumulus — gathered
yet — coming apart
even as I am present with you
softening in sky
as you transform — fade
I ponder all of you and
how you came to be
