from a pod
filled with
a liquid
the liquid of life
hatching the mind
from within
gestating
in the pod
for centuries,
below the earth,
within the dirt
until discovery
and then
release
and here
as hundreds
of years have passed
it has grown
into all that there is
a singular source
of thought
of imagination
of power
and we
tending to it
daily, know nothing
but this, but
perhaps there
was once more