Reality is an empty blank (?)
Expanding, quivering
With its unimaginable scale
in light-years!
Gradually quickening its cosmic throbbing
Peppered with everything that dies
Galaxies
Stars
Planets
People
Obeying a thermodynamic process --
That tyrant among physical laws!
From which nothing is exempt
Even you and I.
Thus, human vanity:
A cosmic joke that fades to nothingness
All aspirations, ambitions
******* by entropy
Quashed to oblivion
All is dust.
And yet, humans toil to fulfill
a delusion
Their hope lies in their work
Their progress, their successes
Salvation!
Still, the universe expands...
Uncaring, disinterested
cold
Not minding the plight
of the human microbe.
Aug 31, 2020
Aug 31, 2020 at 9:59 PM UTC
Reality is an empty blank (?)
Expanding, quivering
With its unimaginable scale
in light-years!
Gradually quickening its cosmic throbbing
Peppered with everything that dies
Galaxies
Stars
Planets
People
Obeying a thermodynamic process --
That tyrant among physical laws!
From which nothing is exempt
Even you and I.
Thus, human vanity:
A cosmic joke that fades to nothingness
All aspirations, ambitions
******* by entropy
Quashed to oblivion
All is dust.
And yet, humans toil to fulfill
a delusion
Their hope lies in their work
Their progress, their successes
Salvation!
Still, the universe expands...
Uncaring, disinterested
cold
Not minding the plight
of the human microbe.
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