Perhaps

If you look out into space, 
pictures on the internet 
taken from the Hubble telescope
you can see a nebula

a great big cloud of gas and dust
the birthplace of new baby suns
most of the gas is hydrogen
the gas that makes the ozone layer

hydrogen links together to build ozone,
so hydrogen is attracted to hydrogen,
yet I wonder is there a small attraction left over
after the atom's link, is there a small slight attraction

Is this slight attraction, the force that we call gravity
atoms are attracted to atoms,
oxygen links with hydrogen to form water 
perhaps, matter attracted to matter

When suns that are born 
they start out composed of mainly Hydrogen gas and dust
then having exploded into an atomic reaction
because of the growing force of gravity

they start changing overtime 
condensing slowly changing from hydrogen 
they turn into helium the next atom 
in the periodic table

as time goes by they slowly work through 
the periodic table until if they are big enough 
they turn into a lead, then they explode 
going supernova, creating dust that goes on 

to make planets, meteorites and the earth
our moon came from a collision with the earth
our moon was once apart of the earth
and broke away after the collision to become a satellite

The core of the earth is hot, perhaps because gravity, 
matter attracted to matter
the force of compounding atoms, creates an atomic reaction 
the outside shell is created because

The coldness of space cools the atoms down
creating a shell a crust around the out side of the earth
the perfect nest for nurturing life
Hydrogen appears to be the foundation of existence

I'm not sure where hydrogen comes from
perhaps the big bang theory is true
but with that much gravity 
the matter would be pure energy so no boulders

just an explosion of pure energy 
that cools down and starts forming atoms 
on becoming the smallest atom hydrogen 
would go on to form nebula clouds, suns and planets

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Date: 1/7/2020 7:01:00 PM
I feel I am learning from a scientist here who is also an astronomer. Well penned Bernard.
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Bernard Barclay
Date: 1/7/2020 10:48:00 PM
No sorry, not a scientist, just a student of life, that likes to read books and learn, I'm not an expert, just expressing my own thoughts and opinions, perhaps giving the experts, insights, that they might not have thought about.
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