Earth: A Scientific Poem

Abstract

Before the universe learned to whisper in galaxies,
before carbon dreamed of architecture,
before hydrogen dared ignite into stars,
there was only a cooling haze of dust—
and from that dust, through gravity’s patient tug,
you began.

Earth—
third planet,
pale jewel in a circumstellar cradle,
92 million miles from a main-sequence sun
that warms you like a steady heartbeat.