The atoms that comprise life on earth
That make up the human body
Are traceable to the crucibles
That cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core
These stars, the high mass ones among them
They collapsed and then exploded
Scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy
Guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
And all the fundamental ingredients of life
These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense
Collapse, form the next generation of solar systems (Stars with orbiting planets)
And those planets now have the ingredients for life itself
So that when I look up at the night sky
And I know that yes we are part of this universe, we are in this universe
But perhaps more important
Than both of those facts is that the universe is in us
When I reflect on that fact, I look up
Many people feel small, cause their small and the universe is big, but I feel big
Because my atoms came from those stars
