What are the odds, reader, that you read this?
What are the odds, reader, that you were born?
What are the odds against this universe?
What are the odds humans were ever formed?
And this earth being neither cold nor warm?
And all our ancestors, human and not
Procreating through drought, disaster, storm?
I think you will agree it’s quite a lot
Yet here we are. But do we give much thought
(Did we ever?) to the future abyss
Not our own death (that neither) but the dawn
Of new life long after our families rot?
What are the odds, reader, of that selfless
Devotion to others over our own?
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