I wonder who I was before me, now?
What if I’d been a tree before I was a human
Or a decomposing leaf
Or I was the tree, the leaf, the rabbit that rummaged amongst the fallen leaves and the soil on the rabbits paw
What if I was the field that the rabbit dreamed of
Every blade of grass and dandelion
Or the roots of a weed
Or the bacteria that lives on the root
Or the worm that travels underground
What if I was the bird that ate the worm and so food that feeds her babies, could have been me too
Or the dirt in her nest or the twigs she collects
What if I was the shell on the beach that breaks when stepped on or the blood that trickles into the sand
Or the sand itself or the seabed
Or the crab or the jellyfish
Or the seaweed that dances on the surface
Or the salt in the sea
What if I was the pepper ground to a powder
Or the potato cooked to perfection or the metal of the fork before it was moulded
What if I’d once lived in the intestine of a whale
Or a shark or even the creatures we now find in fossils
What if I’d once lived on a meteorite which plummeted to this planet
What id I’d been every colour of the galaxy
Or a spark in the big bang, present at the start of beginnings
And endings
Recycled over and over until I got to be here
What if I’m ancient and my soul is so old I’ll never remember exactly where I came from
Or know where I’m going
What if I grew out of nothing and thats where I’m headed
Or I’m the smallest of everything floating within the infinite of nothing
I wonder who I was before me, now?