Viral Graveyards and Thermogenesis

You are carrying the weight

of billions of years living.

Is it a wonder you are tired?

You are half graveyard, child,

What didn’t kill you became you

you took ownership of death

told it to find you in the rubble

and kept on going, so many forms

a trail of desire and trial 

all to end up here.

Do you know how long 

you’ve fought, child?

Do you know all the lives

spent devoted to you being you?

Do you think about how many stars

learned to breathe because of you?

Did you know that you may have started

with the earth, that you may have been

born from the cycle of rocks 

that were once the ground, returning

to the heart of the earth?

You are air that learned to breathe.

And all that life wanted was that you be here

and the rest is for you to decide.