We are Starstuff – for Carl Sagan as NASA’s Insight Lander successfully lands on the red planet Mars

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/timeline/landing/entry-descent-landing/

NASA’s Mars Insight Lander

we are starstuff …

(inspired by Dr. Carl Sagan)

stringed, strung, cobbled together, strands of DNA sewn from the cosmic rubble,

innumerable galaxies, theoretically plausible, infinite universes side by side,

floating in the quantum cauldron, within a bubble.

flotsam and jetsam in spaces between spaces,

where time, and days, kisses and tears, fears and years,

embroider the quilt of a multitude of races.

the vastness blurring much, grinding us down at times, into cosmic dust,

yet through stoic will, through love held deep, we rebuild again from crumbling rust.

starstuff, is all we are,

hewn through eons, within us, and into the stellar void so far.

starstuff is all,

we ever were,

starstuff is from where we came to be,

starstuff:

you, and me.

        ________

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inspired by Dr. Carl Sagan 

the legend. the humanitarian – Dr. Carl Sagan

Dr. Carl Sagan & a Cat during a Johannesburg Thunderstorm

i am scared, because a Jo'burg thunderstorm is raging

she needs some Carl Sagan, during a Jo’burg rainstorm … … … 🐹✌

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