looking up at the heavens ancients saw bears, hunters, ***** shapes of exotics in all kinds today's wonders are galaxies black holes, echoes of 'big bang' the patterning of the universe and magnificence closer to home the complexity of life, its variety DNA, the internal logic of being fibonacci to chaos to fractals matter's quantum existence searching out the patterns the very stuff of the cosmos purpose and meaning if any
but who gets to decide some say survival of the fittest the strong, the brightest, the best adaptation and evolution forever sustaining species across the eons or chasing an environment receding planetary, universal inconstancy shaping shadows of apocalypse planting, nurturing the seeds of our own inexorable extinction who gets to decide
yet may the pattern differ something bigger, more complex birth, death, evolution, extinction the rise and fall of species star systems and galaxies entropy playing enthalpy catastrophe versus creation annihilation or ex-nihlo spark dancing to a different tune omega transmutes to alpha death becomes resurrection daily little deaths or the last beauty of the broken salvaged love's creative urge driving a birth, nascent recasting shaping old patterning anew