Our Breath

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Our Breath

My breath,

                Our breath,

                                The rustle of leaves.

My heartbeat,

                Our heartbeat,

                                Susurrations on the breeze.

My dreams,

                Our dreams,

                                Green splendour of nature.

My life,

                Our life,

                                Defying all nomenclature.

Adrift on a cosmic island,

                Wondrously

Alive

                Myriads

                                Interconnected

                                                Wonders.

Opher – 20.11.2024

Sometimes you simply have to stand aside and gasp. Here we are on this tiny rock spinning and spiralling through space at colossal speeds.

Once, just once, the chemicals came together.

Now we have this vast interconnected web of wonder, spawning consciousness, self-awareness and beauty.

So delicate, so unlikely, so marvellous.

Incredible. I am incredulous.

We are part of this. We are all one. My breath; our breath.

Poetry – Bigger than the parts

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Bigger than the parts

Once there was one

That transformed into billions,

All working in harmony, mysteriously,

All the same; all different,

Performing their tasks

For the good of them all,

To join in oneness

To create something

Much bigger than them all.

Opher – 22.6.2019

We all started from an egg – a single cell that split and split into billions – all identical genetically yet all differentiated into different types of cells. The worked together to form tissues and organs, mysteriously transformed, organised, and all with their roles, all different, all part of the whole. They create a new oneness – an identity – something far greater than the sum of its parts.