Your blood is mostly water.
That water was once too deep beneath the sea for sunlight to reach.
Yet it knew wonders down in the crushing black.
Living constellations of bioluminescence.
It knows wonders still, thundering with the dark drumbeat of your heart.
You are nature.

Earth’s memory holds many lifeless times.
Burning white seas of glacial ice.
Years of night beneath swirling ash.
The world’s fiery youth before the first cell split.
In all these contexts, one green leaf would be a miracle.
One child’s sigh, magic beyond belief.
Let these desolate images teach you what life is.
Let us not forget its worth.