Terry Ireland Poet Rhyme

Alone

Once the centre of creation 
Orbited by a sun and every star
Until  growing knowledge showed 
Just how insignificant we really are.
Riding a spec of dust at a Galaxy rim,
Occupying our out of the way place 
As that Galaxy increasingly speeds 
Through a mysterious, endless space

In a cycle  of birth and death, 
Of destruction and creation,
Until billions of years on
Comes a slow gradual situation
That, all energy burnt, the final stars
Collapse and, once full of light,
Our Universe become a place of
Endless lifeless eternal night.

For our brief existence
As our knowledge grows
We strive to learn more 
In our driving  need to know.
Were we an accident that happened
An incidental, unplanned construction 
Were  we alone, temporary, solitary prophets 
In this process  of birth  and destruction.

Or, did we serve a purpose to learn,
And record for some purpose unknown
Until, somehow, with us soon gone 
Our knowledge somehow flown
To another developing planet raising
Another developing sentient race,
The next chosen recording angels
There to take our privileged place.

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