i have been told
that i will grow old
and the world will look different.

but when i was small,
and not myself at all,
the world was very much the same.

it must be that variety
that so shook society
and shocked all those watching.

the little one-by-one changes
and lopsided ranges
that help each young world to keep spinning

the insignificance of some
must influence the outcome
into the pathways of all

each planet will live
and all rest will forgive
and any different will cease to exist