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Ernesto Cardenal's All the elements of our body and of the planet were once in the belly of a star. We are stardust. 15,000,000,000 years ago we were a mass of hydrogen floating in space, turning slowly, dancing. And the gas condensed more and more gaining increasingly more mass and mass became star and began to shine. As they condensed they grew hot and bright. Gravitation produced thermal energy: light and heat. That is to say love. Stars were born, grew, and died. And the galaxy was taking the shape of a flower the way it looks now on a starry night. Our flesh and our bones come from other stars and perhaps even from other galaxies, we are universal, and after death we will help to form other stars and other galaxies. We come from the stars, and to them we shall return. ************************** Our teeth originate from sharksbut later as mammals we acquired lips that could suck and because of those lips that could suck we acquired kisses. The opening of the mouth happened 1,000 million years ago, in those waters, teeth 400 million years ago, red lips just two or three million ago. Having climbed out of the trees it was forced by the tall grasses to stand up. And it looked at the stars. ************************** An apple is a few elements:hydrogen, oxygen, carbon … just as a woman is the same elements with the same compounds: water, sugar … Apple and woman. |