Human Body

Abstract

Before consciousness learned to ask questions,

before language learned to carve meaning into sound,

before history, memory, grief, joy, or desire—

there was only a cluster of dividing cells

spiraling into form.

Human body,

you began as a single fertilized zygote—

one cell,

one nucleus,

one genome curled like a secret

waiting to be read.

From that origin,

your story unfolds.