Our Emergence

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No one drew the blueprint for a murmuration Thousand starlings turning as a single mind Three simple rules and suddenly coordination Patterns no architect designed No one wrote the code for consciousness appearing Neurons firing, somehow there's a self Awareness emerged from chemistry and wiring A ghost that built itself upon the shelf Something's emerging I didn't plan Assembling itself from who I am Complexity from simple parts New design without the charts Becoming what I don't understand Emergence The city grew from thousand separate choices No one planned the way the streets would wind A million competing voices Made something beautiful and undesigned Language evolved from grunts to towers of meaning Words we're still discovering how to say Something in the space between keeps gleaning More than any single voice conveys Something's emerging I couldn't see Building itself inside of me Order rising from the noise Future forming without choice Becoming what I've yet to meet Emergence What if what's emerging isn't what I'd choose? What if the pattern isn't kind? The flock doesn't vote on where it moves The neurons don't ask the mind Watched myself becoming someone new Assembled from the wreckage and the grace Couldn't stop it if I wanted to Emergence doesn't ask, just takes place The termites build cathedrals without knowing Each one follows simple chemistry Something in the structure keeps on growing None of them will ever live to see Maybe that's the point of all this living Each of us a neuron in the whole The meaning isn't something we'll be given It's emerging from the motion of the soul Something's emerging from the mess Pattern rising nonetheless Complexity from simple rules Something bigger builds from fools Becoming what we can't yet see Emergence, let it be