Stargazing Guy

– Nikita Gill, Your Soul Is A River

Nikita Gill’s poem, from Your Soul is a River, speaks to me, unusually as I’m not a great fan of poetry.

The poem goes:

We have calcium in our bones,

iron in our veins,

carbon in our souls.

and nitrogen in our brains.

93 percent stardust,

with souls made of flames,

we are all just stars

that have people names.”

Nikita Gill

Probably because it echoes Carl Sagan’s quote “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself” spoken during the first episode of the 1980 landmark science series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” titled “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean”.

In an interview with shopcatalog she explains “That stars don’t ever anguish over their purpose, they simply shine, as they are meant to do. And that like them, we shouldn’t question our existence as much as we do.”

From the personal to the sublime, her poem hits the spot.

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In the meantime, take care of yourself and if you can, someone else, too, because as Adam Smith said, “we naturally desire not only to be loved but to be lovely”.

Remember, hope lives here.

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