Tireless Universe
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
As fact-based consensus continues to be harassed by belief-based opinion, one might argue that man has so distorted reality that delusions are slowly creating the deep sleep of extinction. (Image - Hubble Telescope of 10,000 galaxies.)
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Tireless Universe
by Odin Roark
Time defies denial,
Knowing well its empirical presence
Will never be of absence.
Dense as its surrounding matter,
Its aged archives remain
Forever fortressed beneath passage and growth,
Like termite mounds of tunneled journeys,
A labyrinth of cosmic dust
Forever of remnant coatings
Upon endless bell tolling posterity.
Here within the maze of stellar nurseries,
Time’s infinite presence passes through our microcosm
As we attempt to aggrandize selfhood
Beyond its limitations.
Like the beam of a miner’s lamp,
Our import seeks to impact the void,
While this depth of immense profundity
Reveals our illuminative essence
As more akin to a spark of flint
Confronting the revelation of existence.
Perhaps…
Somewhere beyond our consciousness,
Smiles mix with duration’s yawn,
Humoring the metaphysical malady of rest deprivation.
After all,
Like time,
Existence has never slumbered.
Such a tireless universe this.
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Fantastic line. Our mere little life span as humans and we truly only highlight those moments in smiles or even tears. The everlasting mundane seems to go unnoticed and perhaps might be more important . A collective unselfishness in the ordinary. The universe has patience galore.
Each generation grows tired of the chase and rests before it dies, but the universe goes on with timeless laws that we have been discovering like peeling the layers of an onion. Will time catch up with us before it's too late?
Ron