Molecular Delusion

Giant swaths of space

covered by gas clouds

coalesce under intense pressure

form explosive balls of fission

illuminating all directions

over sometimes billions of years,

and you are in a hurry to become something or someone?

Molecules formed over eons

converge and accrete

collisions create an orbit

gravity pulls together dense collections

by chance some form of materials resembles life,

and our self-worth, belonging, or value is something we must earn through struggle?

Planets with suns, moons, and cycles

potentially holding a variety of lifeforms

exposed to the cosmic forces that unite all space and time

moving to the pulse and rhythm that supports all existence,

and our thoughts, our identity, our human-ness makes us different from each other?

All the borders, restrictions, obstacles, separateness

all the hurt, rejection, fear, loneliness,

all the violence, repression, shame, greed, lust

all survive and persist because we cling fervently

to the imagined sense of "I" at the heart of our experience.

But is that "I" something more than a focal point

for the boundless cosmic power to express itself?

As something truly boundless,

it could never be contained or separate

in something so tiny as an "I"

It must be a "Molecular Delusion" (Ramases)

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