Written
We must shudder
as we go back in time,
all the way back
years before we can remember
to the decisive second when
one little upstream swimmer
strong enough to enter
and forever change
the constitution of an egg—
Bam!
It is written
the moment
we began.
Copyright © Rita A. Simmonds | Year Posted 2016
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