Pondering the Cosmos

Pondering the cosmos, I thought I’d look around until I heard a tiny voice, speaking from the ground It questioned why I bothered, to gaze so far away when right beneath my own two feet, a vibrant world’s at play Hmm, I mused. He’s got a point, I may have overlooked So, I bent down and what I saw forever had me hooked The drama of an anthill forming, the undulations of a worm A cosmos that I’d never known ~ a new world from which to learn