Descartes' Rule of Signs

I. Noise in an empty hallway: My old leather shoes protest as I hurry down the linoleum tiles Like I'm wearing a little piece of history older than I am. II. Headlights on a dark road: Speeding down narrow country roads windows rolled down and Autumn wind rushing through the car Ripping my hair from its tie My arm stretching out the window, numb in the night air. III. Ephemeral beauty: For a moment, life is endless and incredibly brief Stretching before me like a dusty trail at sunset Disappearing into the trees. IV. Origin of life: There is this vague, unnamable incomprehension in my chest Like euphemisms, that is the easy way out This is the hard way: I am alive, alive, alive When one cell became thirty trillion, I gained consciousness. V. I am not the sum of my parts: I don't have the faith to believe That all my thirty trillion cells are a fluke of nature VI. Evidence: I am the proof of divinity's existence A signpost shouting "I am alive" thirty trillion times with all the power of my lungs Designed for miracles VII. Rene Descartes: It is not I think; therefore, I am It is I think; therefore, He is.