To What Do Things Aspire?

The obvious answer
Is nothing whatever,
But there’s a problem there.

While the cosmos of things
Other than living things,
Maybe even other

Than brainy things,
Doesn’t seem to aspire
To anything at all,

From what, then, do the things
Like you that do aspire
Emerge, if not from lack

Of aspiration? What
Could trigger aspiring
Before aspiring was,

Give birth to aspiring
Ex nihilo? Latent
Aspiration must have

Lurked in unaspiring
Things. The next answer then,
Paradoxically,

To the given question,
Could be that things aspire
To being that aspires.