Pills spill from Abel’s overfilled hand.
Twinkling stars outside his window catch his eye.
14 billion years ago everything exploded from nothing.
Competing galaxies fought for space.
Inside one grew a special star
that developed a special blue planet just right for life.
What are the odds?
Big Bang.
Milky Way.
Sun.
Earth.
Life.
Humanity.
His parents.
One sperm and one egg merging.
Abel’s little life is a confluence of improbable probabilities.
Isn’t that a miracle?
Abel drops the pills;
who is he to end the odds?
