
Day Nineteen

It’s odd
and
I don’t know for certain
yet,
deep inside
there is a kernel of recollection
of my beginning
a breath, a gentle
wisp, and I
came into being,
no more important
than rock or star,
dandelion or dewdrop
and
I wonder
if I catch how true
rock and star and dewdrop
tender their design
while
I dissolve
my gossamer filaments tied
to the quickening exhalation of genesis
Author’s Note:
Today’s prompt from NaNoWriMo/NaPoWriMo:
“And now for our daily prompt (optional, as always!). Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that recounts a creation myth. It doesn’t have to be an existing creation myth, or even recount how all of creation came to be. It could be, for example, your own take on the creation of ball-point pens, or the discovery of knitting. Your myth can be as big or small as you would like, as serious or silly as you make it.”