SHIPWRECKED IN THE COSMOS

 

1

This is the life of a sentient being, 

despair before the Cosmos 

as one grows to understand 

that our existence

has no meaning at all.

2

Alone in the cosmic night,

we are like survivors from a wreck

battling for our lives in a cold ocean 

in the darkness of the night.
We may yell, 

but the shore is nowhere to be seen, 

no lights of ships 

to be seen in the horizon.
The waves come one after another, 

and the cold makes our body numb; 

soon we will be dragged down 

to black depths below, 

and what comes after 

the light has gone out 

does not bother us anymore.

22.06.2002