Humanity

Humanity The pagan pilgrimage, sun-worshippers frequently make Latter-day phenomenon, take off on a Bronze Age break Constellations change position, solstices realign Tropic of Capricorn peaks, Cancer starts its slow decline Astrologers reassure us, the end is not bespoke Astronomers can’t sleep, has a supernova awoke? Healthy cells deconstruct inexorably from their core Runaway chain reactions, laying waste forever more Be that as it must, cosmic cataclysms generate thrust Comets are slightly nudged, on a collision course with us? Ancients believed them omens, wraiths of impending slaughter Those billion ton tailed curveballs, catalysed Earth with water Modern man searches for answers, drowning in misnomers Melding PhD honours, with chatbot E-diplomas Teleporting entangled particles, throws back a hack Time travelling marvel, rewinds the real Bronze Age back? Absurdness seems lame, yet concomitantly germane Hawking conserved energy, by merely using his brain Newton had a bachelors, kept him celibate stable He’d balls of steel for sure, alas no bearings on that cradle? Information cannot be destroyed, only zeitgeists can Synthesised is truth, in the malleable hands of man Life’s more delicate, gravitas hidden behind a smile Like tales that flightless birds, buried heads in denial Ostriches evolved kick-ass legs, and win the biped race They dig shallow pits in sand, not complex black holes in space One squawked this revelation before zooming off to die: “Humankind’s the sole species, with good reason to ask why”?