Your cells 

Are an unfathomable abundance

A legacy of lives 

On branches so far reaching

Their names are lost in history’s haze

Yet, the map has not vanished

It spans the centuries 

On the spun silver helix 

Twinning and twining 

A ladder 

The generations have climbed

You are

A collection

Of star stuff and DNA

You belong 

To this

This cosmos carried in your marrow 

To this 

This inheritance tucked in the bow of your lips

To this 

This life