ONE DAY THE UNIVERSE WILL ERASE US

1  

We make the mistake

that we think we

are the cosmos,

not born from a Big Bang,

destined for a Big Rip,

but a Steady State universe,

eternal, without an end.

Human hubris.

2

We accept that others,

even our loved ones,

are mortal,

destined to be bones,

ash and dust,

silence in place of voices;

but ourselves

we grant immortality;

our days have no end -

millions of years

of brief lives,

thirty years of misery,

have bred this delusion

in the human psyche,

to make us face

the inevitable

with a comforting lie.

Thus we perish,

amazed.

07.06.2022

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