(Follow yourself home, word remedies to heal and inspire)
From the time this planet began hurtling through space
and the sun caught her in its orbit
From the first moment when life began from nothing
the smallest idea, the smallest spark
the very first fragment of growth
From that time, eons upon eons
miracles happened
That I stand here now
That each ancestor, from the tiniest to now
multiplied, replicated, to evolve, to develop
Found a way to reproduce
That I stand here now
Each living thing that found nourishment
to grow and mature
each meal found and fed to stay alive
That I stand here now
Through millions of years
during vast change and huge challenge
stories of courage, endurance and determination
the driving force to continue
That I stand here now
All the failures that fell away
mistakes that led to nowhere
and still enough survived
That I stand here now
And sight and taste and touch and smell and sound and speech
And then love and art, thought and heroism and beauty
and compassion, philosophy and joy
And I stand here now
Humbled at the persistence
In awe of the patience
Grateful for the success
Overwhelmed at the magnitude
That I stand here now
