258 - The universe, and even life itself

The universe, and even life itself,
Seems unconscious, no matter what it builds.
You don’t think so? Do you control your health?
Or is it managed by some gland that spills
Those hormones just when needed, giving thrills,
Mending, or regulating production
Of other hormones? You don’t have those skills.
Or do you, without knowing? Each section
Of brain and vein and heart, each part, gets on
With doing its job expertly, so well
That you’d think it had brains. Are fishes’ gills,
Or even a computer, or the sun,
All things that react but don’t think or smell,
Conscious? Yes! It’s from them our mind’s distilled.
Sun 20 May 2007