In the time of the earth,
that began as a lifeless hot
ball of spinning careless matter,
that has now come to the
so-called Anthropocene, there
have been rises and falls of
mountains and creatures,
and we, living in this sheltered
fragment, cannot comprehend
its magnitude, nor understand
our tiniest of tiny place in
this grand parade of evolution,
to which we have come late.

All of what we see as essential,
all the significance that we
place on this self-important pinnacle
of creation, amounts to little as
the earth rolls on in the endless
everlasting arms of the universe,
and there will be a time to come
when we will be gone and forgotten,
as other creatures rise to take the
helm of this ship sailing the ether
of the limitless cold flowing universe.

 

28/7/2024