Dissipation’s Dispensations

Whatever must happen
In the dissipation
Of energy happens

Spontaneously as
Water heads downhill.
Complex as something seems,

If thermodynamics
So ordains, it will rush
Forth through available

Channels in propitious
Circumstances, even
Absent any other

Rules, designs, directions,
Genes, or engineering
Intentions. The question

Is, just how much of life
Have thermodynamic
Cascades generated?

Just the start? Origins
Of metabolism?
Cycles? Cell division?

Just how far downstream can
The cascades continue?
All the way to culture?

To the estuaries
Of your technologies
And art forms, all one long

Spontaneous descent?
Well, how far downstream
Have you seen water go?