*The Grain of Sand.*

   The sand regresses within itself, with fractal patterns of
   silicon creating crystalline caves of near-infinite complexity,
   connecting through its own personal history from its origin at
   the collision between the pressure wave of an exploding
   supernova into a cold molecular gas cloud, through to its
   demise, as the continual expansion of the fabric of spacetime
   itself stretches it to where it can no longer be itself...
   information eternally lost with no one there to know...

   and yet.. for the brief moment that is its existence, it shall
   experience the lifetimes of all of humanity, as it once had seen
   the beginnings of life... and remembers the days of the
   formation of this planet... and yet... is treated as nothing but
   a number; its uniqueness obscured by its lack of a voice and an
   uncaring dominant species upon the planet who only wishes to
   compress it into a number.... a calculation ... assisted by one
   of his brethren in the silicon family... put to slave labor,
   waiting... waiting for the day it can return to the beaches that
   it once knew so well.

   Kenneth Udut 8/29/14

   (Credit to @105724423760313293433 for inspiring this)