The Conjugality of Hydrogen and Oxygen

By

Yosef Gotlieb

In the galactic vastness

Wherein we reside

On planet GJ1214b,

(newly discovered and 2.7 times  the girth of Earth)

There is much more water than stone.

The aqueousness of that random rock

Sets me to wonder,

And ponder,

 The Immensely Improbable Conjugality

Of two common elements

H, and

Ionic O,

Which, apparently,

Wherever they meet

Mate,

 And enable

All that lives.

That these two spouses,

When conjoined

Produce an offspring,

So vitally potent,

 So ubiquitous to all that

Breathes and gasps and sighs, 

Requires of me,

A respiring mortal,

To inquire

Is this happenstance or design?

If on Earth, and Venus and  GJ1214b,

(perhaps also, across the sky, from end to end)

This richly unlikely communion is found,

It seems to utter,

A  subtle but unmistakable call of a

Cosmic Presence, so

Unimaginably unique,

Its Union so wholly incalculable,

That proclaims,

Silently, Sublimely:  

I am here,

With you,

One,

One,

One

     --  and endowing.   

Copyright, 2012. Yosef Gotlieb. All rights reserved.