The 2nd Genesis
For 100 million years
After the birth of the universe,
Space was dark and mostly formless.
That’s 100 million years.
No stars.
It was not interesting in the least.
It was mostly hydrogen and helium,
With faint traces of lithium and beryllium.
It was an abysmally black “void”;
Darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Who would have bet on this dark horse
Running through a 100 million year night?
Then hydrogen caught fire
And so the stars were born.
In these blast furnaces,
Atomic nuclei were crushed, burned,
And transmuted into more complex elements.
That was the second creation,
The one that really mattered.
We contain those elements.
Parts of those stars
Are in our blood, bones, and skin.
We are those stars.
[And thus from the universal framework.]