Know the Taste

Breathe in the air

of your ancestors

and cherish every drop

of rain that falls

and let the soft autumn sun

seep into your pores.

Feel each blade of grass

tickle your palms

and smell the salty

ocean waves

and kiss the earth

on which we dance.

See every star that glimmers

in your night sky

and live all your minutes

to their brims

and know the taste

of a lover who's true.

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"Breathe with me. We all just inhaled about 100 million molecules that once passed through the lungs of  everyone who ever lived before us. Think of it: this kind of atomic reincarnation is another link to our distant  ancestors, including those who first launched us on our explorations of the unseen universes." Neil deGrasse Tyson Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey "Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still"