Insignificantly Me
I’m only one of billions of my kind
breathing in the same atmosphere
from eons gone by. . .
just a spec in God’s eye
Perhaps, we’re just the latest whim
Perhaps, the greatest
Perhaps, perhaps not.
You’re only one of billions, just like me
In that respect, we’re the same
All breathing the same air
from the same atmosphere of eons gone by. . .
just a blink of an eye, just a wink in time
Perhaps, we’re at the top of the food chain
Perhaps, an evolutionary game
where we pretend, we’re also at the top
Made in the image of God Himself
The best of the best, better than all the rest
of billions and billions of species
All surviving as if this was some kind of test
on this Big Blue spherical nest
spinning around and around our Sun
that blocks out the others and becomes the One and only
for a while, daily really, but when
the nighttime comes with that spotlight to our backs
It’s only One amongst billions of sparkles in the black
Billions now visible to my naked eyes, I take them all in.
Yet with a little telescopic help, we all know better.
There’s an infinite number beyond our nakedness,
beyond the vastness of possibilities
Physicists would have us believe
this Universe of ours is but one of an infinite
Number of Quantum realities
Perhaps
When I look to the stars I see
Them looking down at me like eyes. . .
Like all eyes on me, can you believe it?
Insignificant me.
Copyright © Benjamin Bartley | Year Posted 2024
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