Your Existence
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Have you noticed?
The beating of your heart
The flooding of your veins
that works without hesitation
marvelous and patient
Like your body is a nation
and your cells are patriots
effective and loyal
they continue to toil
Because you are royal
and they only live for you
Have you noticed?
The cells that sustain you
The moments that maintain you
They shine
Much like the stars in the sky
Killer cells in your immune
system fighting wars every day
They scream
much like the voices in my brain
The same brain that recognizes faces
that lets you ask the questions that you do
to soak up knowledge like you are a sponge
that lets you think that you have issues
That allows you to know
the meaning of love
of life
Have you noticed?
The lungs that exist so that you can breathe
The mind that exists so that you can be free
And your mitochondria, like factories
keep giving you the energy it takes
to turn your head
to get out of bed
to live
Have you noticed?
Your cells never stop to wonder if it matters - keeping you alive
they’re systematic, like a chant
they give all of their effort
they work until they can’t
Your heart will beat through
every time someone hurts you
every time you hurt yourself
In those last moments before you die, it will try
And if you’re bleeding out, even then, it will try
Every cut and bruise
Every single wound
your body will heal it all
the systems within you will work
until they literally cannot
they know nothing more important
than you
If you think nobody cares
what about all the efforts of evolution
every creature that has existed before you
all your fallen ancestors
improving over generations
so that you are the best you can possibly be
Think of the
Systems, mechanisms
crafted by evolution
over millions of years
for the sole purpose of your survival
And you wonder if you matter