We are all made of stardust–
the signs are everywhere.
For four and a half billion years
floating on this spatial sea,
collecting bits of every planet that ever existed,
every sun that no longer shines.
Quantum and classic physics aside,
deciphering our place on a finite line
in an infinite universe boggles
even the sharpest of minds.
Even our atoms resemble tiny solar systems.
and the elements that compose our human body
are also found inside the stars.
Made of stardust? You bet we are.
We are a miracle of evolution,
breathing the air from plants
that existed a hundred million years ago.
We need not question who we are.
It is in everything that surrounds us.
All of us travelers in time
walking among the stars.
© Ginny Brannan 2024
The grains of sand at Hoshizuna-no-Hamma beach in Okinawa, Japan are shaped like tiny stars. The star-shaped “sand” grains in Okinawa are actually the calcite endoskeletons of microscopic organisms known as Foraminifera. Foraminifera are a quite old phylum, having been around since at least the Cambrian era (over 500 million years ago),
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