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Genesis: Silence and molecules

Today, I feel agnostic.

How do I know He exists?

I want to break away.

But my mother continues to insist to pray

while she tells me to stay.

How can he, with all these twists and turns?

How do I know he even hears me when all I feel is pain?

My mother tells me to have some faith and hold on.

But I don’t want to be grasping at small straws for eternity.

I try to shrug it off as I walk into biology.

Such a precisely painted canvas: the human body.

So carefully crafted from the inside out.

I start to remember.

I dive sharply into the water.

I pause to float and forget:

water molecules,

two hydrogen atoms,

one oxygen atom.

Silence and molecules.

I feel Him all around me.

Proof is all around me.

And I remember.

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