Universe is a Coral

Universe is a Coral

The Universe and the biosphere

Of our Mother Earth are corals

Intricate, colorful and complex,

Yet simple like a rock

Now, a coral is something in and of itself

But it is also a colony

Made of many small lifeforms called polyps,

Each one, something in and of itself

And within every polyp

Is the potential to make a whole coral

A coral would not be the same coral

Without the sum total of all the polyps that it's made of

Likewise, the Universe and our Earth Mother

Are things incomprehensibly vast in and of themselves

But without each and every one of the ten-thousand trillion

Lives contained therein,

Would not be the same Universe or Earth

Dewey Dirks