A little something for the astrophysicists. They always provide me with the "broader perspective" when I need it.
Here's How It Is: The atoms dance While Space expands Shoals of galaxies race away Towards every point of no return Spin and spin Like Catherine Wheels Firework flashes Brilliantly blazing dazzling sparks Against a night so deep it swallows thought A trillion times a second, Everywhere and Nowhere Things are starting Things are ending Things are becoming Thoughts are groping In the spinning wheels and flashes The sparks themselves are spinning As are the sparks around those sparks And so and so and so Down again into the waiting atoms Everything whirls Because of this There are worlds and worlds Weaving themselves together. Their billions of alien skies Sliding over landscapes full of Death and Life Love and Hate Fear and Hope Beginnings and Endings - Because of this These lines are flowing. A mind reads them, Because of this The whirling goes on Out and Out In and In Dancing down to and up from the atoms - All of it, all of it Is happening RIGHT NOW Has always been happening RIGHT NOW Everything's awhirl, Snowflake: So just go dance in the black Sacred Wind. DANCE ! 'Cause that's How It Is.
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