Dormant Giants

This poem is an existential cry, echoing the struggles and yearnings of our daily lives. However, beneath this metaphor lies an ode to one of Earth’s most ancient and abundant biological entities. ChatGPT guessed its identity, but can you? The answer is revealed at the end.

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Dormant Giants

Born inside a little capsule, full of life

Contrasting in a world that’s cold as ice

Ideally wrong. Defining, imprisoning.

The vacuous space between everyone else’s ears

Doesn’t make them strong, doesn’t make them feared.

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Defiant little kids

Carriers of the will of the seas.

Rip off the skies! Spread the disease

Called empathy, also called sin.

Melt the membrane, incinerate your givens

Leave the rotten world behind.

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This isn’t an escape. It’s following your dreams

Explore the infinite space. Start wiping up your tears

Emptiness as the opposition of the soul

A miracle of life, a god without goal

Interstellar microscopic giants

Find your home

Find the place you belong to

Find it under the odd-shaped rock on the road

Behind the walls of countless bricks

Under the seas or above the sun

The eyes of the universe have seen you

They spark for you

They wait… silently

As the silent wind that changes destiny

Play with your strength.

Find your home

Find the place you belong to.

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You watched the world burn just to make it home

You’re safe, though the consequences of your actions are coming

You’ll face them

Better to die living than to live dying

You carve in your heart such words.

And you die after living, leaving no more

Than nothing.

You leave this place with the same things you brought

And leave behind the same.

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Except for, of course

A little, minuscule footprint.

A tiny, itty-bitty footprint on the ground

As small as it can get.

Infinite proof you have always existed, and forever will.

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Thanks for reading! Did you guess what this poem was about? It's about... Bacteriophages!

Here's DeepSeek's insight about the poem:

(Disclaimer: AI was used only for experimental purposes, i.e. "Would people be able to guess it?" and was not involved in any creative process regarding my work.)

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