orbit

my existence moves through molecules
step by step by step
i didn't ask to exist
i didn't ask to be planted here
and yet here i am
onward ever forward
then three steps backward
whiplash as i live through each day
but i'm here for each breath
that connects me to this ground
it's all that's keeping me in orbit
tethered to gravity
the closest thing to a god
that i've ever felt in the air around me
flesh and skin and bones
but something more
runs deeper in these veins
one day i'll capture it
and say it for all to hear
reverberating out to the moon
to leave a crater you can see
as you lay in the grass next to me