I'm tired of hearing About how we're all Made of stardust
Stars, stars, stars Like so many Shakespearean sonnets
Maybe I want The sliding plates of my wrist To be made from the jawbone Of a T-Rex
And the electrons in my brain To have once sparked down In a rainstorm Over ancient China The night the emperor died
And I wish I could go back 8 million years To make sure that the charcoal In your sketchbook Is made from the roots Of your favorite flowers And press their petals Into your chalk pastels
The steel second hand in the watch Of the man in the elevator Certainly isn't the dainty spun glass Of a supernova But rather the sliver of the sword That my ancestor threw At the feet of his On the moors of Gaul All those years ago Its ancient ticking Reminding me of debts unpaid While the soles of his shoes Are worked from the tar That killed my wrist bones' sire Eons past
We're not made of stardust, We're made of each other, Every atom accounted for Between us With nowhere to go But on And on And on Chasing each other through Every metamorphosis Until they've clashed and kissed So many times That we rip the cosmos in half And catch fire in the debris