DNA

    Long ago, before the tides brought us to land, before fish swam in the sea and birds flew in the air, even before bacteria spread at astonishing rates, two crystals of the same mineral came together, forming a whole, a union fresh, their polarities united, creating something new that had retained their codes, something inanimate that was still conscious of itself, remembered how it was born, sought another crystal like itself to reproduce, from the very pattern the molecules of its parents had fused together.  The crystals evolved into single-celled organisms, developing multiple “sexes” that were really just portals leading to pathways of survival, each adaptation a new form of selection on the infinite chain of life.  Our sexual inheritors remember this great event that revolutionized mobility in life to spread its blueprint, sperm and ovum two polarities, yang and yin, man and woman, active cells full of vigor, to inseminate the homely passive ones, one seeking the other while the other waits, as nature instructed them to do, divine symbols of the original birth that rippled through the eons, summoning the planet to breathe.