A beautiful creation that brings joy, the source of a wonderful smell, a seed maker bringing promise of a future flower, a nectar provider, the forerunner to a delicious fruit or a nutritious seed or vegetable, a lovely colour or a form that inspires art and creativity in us, an expression of love when given, an example of an intricate mathematical pattern… or a million more possibilities …
We may see it as a single thing,
We may even cut it and treasure it as a single thing… or part of an arrangement,
It is a flower after all …
… but it is not just a flower.
It is an individual expression of something bigger…
It is part of a plant,
And that plant is part of nature,
And nature is part of our world,
And our world is part of our solar system,
And our solar system is part of our galaxy,
And our galaxy is part of our universe,
And maybe … although it is beyond our view… our universe is one of many,
… or part of something bigger, beyond our view.
Then looking down, instead of up,
That same flower
It is made of parts;
Petals, stamens, nectar, pollen…
Each is made of cells,
They may be different,
Yet they’re all made of the same stuff …
Configured similarly,
And also, differently,
Each atom, each subatomic particle,
Moving, to its own beat.
It is all … energy.
Energy that never dies,
Just changes form.
Think upon a flower.
Think upon you.
Think upon each of us.
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January 2022
Tales of the Universe 