Notion

I am elementary particles
For over billions of years
Who have come together
By accident
By natural selection

So if I am not to feel purpose
Self-worth, nor direction
Who am I to say it should not be so?
I am no more than atoms asking
Where did my starlight go?

Mass, velocity, position, energy
Man-made metrics
Of sources never created
But sure, we try to harness
Still, we struggle to contain that one photon
That divides forever and flows everywhere
Why, our minds can bend light
But our hearts hold it and if heavy
Never let it escape, letting it
Fight away the dark space that
Creeps and crawls in between bits
And paint glue on the pieces that
Would otherwise explode and shout
An inaudible, insignificant bang
Ah, the origin or end?