Microfauna

We are each an ecosystem. A landscape. A zoo. 

There are more bacteria living in your belly than stars in the galaxy

and yet you still get lonely.

Over 100 trillion beings make up your body

and yet you do not introduce yourself as ‘we’.

All our ‘I’s are illusions.

From afar, we humans are merely interdependent micro-fauna roaming the skin-cells of the earth.

Absorbent beings that lean towards the sun and the rain.

We are teensy person-flowers who have taken on a name. 

There is a tiny universe of life in each of us who abides as a tiny life within the universe. 

We don’t need to reconnect to the earth. We already are the earth.

We just need to remember.