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The poetic city: “Life before Life”

Jan 03, 2022 • Creative Writing, People, Writer

Life as a bubble. (Photo: Pexels)

Life before Life  

I am a bubble…
A bubble of possibility
in a sea of infinite possibilities.
Straight from the Big Bang
I will arrive as a consequence
of countless contingencies.
The odds of me becoming me
are impossible to calculate.
But once I happen, the inevitable
will take over and I will be
the only me I could possibly be.
Until that moment, I will remain
an urge… a yearning for expression
driven by all the forces of a universe
compelled to know itself in all possible ways.
Reece Burka 
3/18/2018

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