Over the past 4.5 billion years, our planet has risen up from the rinds of cosmic dust, venting its attributes onto all of its inhabitants. Scabs, forming from the thicket of molecules and atoms. Hurrying along, inch by inch, until they’re able to cross an ocean or call it a puddle.
Each and every life forms claim some kind of control.

They claim it with their actions and their tongues and so it can be seen as misfortune latches onto the writhing and wriggling worms near the bottom, trembling and hoping for a chance to get away.
A rebirth had been granted; not with holding of consciousness. Only memories and buckets of spilt self. The dispersed ions had traveled for eons only to collect with others and form as a new den or social construct.
Something pulled them to a new location. Something beyond us and yet something that is us.
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