Strength, by nature

Is not provided for our own benefit.

The stubborn may vie for what they desire,

The strongman may be able to move boulders,

But strength of character

moves entire mountains

and there is no room for boasting.

All substance, and no air.

 

Super clusters of Galaxies

Strung together by thin bands of space dust.

A scene eerily similar to the neurons

of our own mind.

Do not take the cosmos that makes up You

for granted.

To replicate the vast complexity of our universe

on a scale that can fit between our temples

is nothing short of a miracle.

 

It is only sheer arrogance

to believe that the infinite empirical data

we can derive

Is somehow proof that that is all that there is.

For if community could be boiled down to some

Formula

We would have done it already.

 

So take the time

Peer into the finite masterpiece you are

in your authentic self

in your communal self

in your expressive self

 

Not one any more true than the others

All of them, equally You.