Space Oddity

When World's Collide

By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 13, 2016

Space Oddity

Way out there
Eons ago
Billions of miles
When black holes
Smashed together
Swallowing
Dual voids
Cosmic event
Good vibrations
Warping
Time and space
As Einstein predicted
Now proven
Eureka moment
How insignificant
We are
Grain of sand
On universal beach
Gazing up
At the twinkling
Unknown
So taken
With our
Puny significance
In the vastness
Beyond

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Reader Comments

"And yet, we can see and hear the great distances. How fortunate we are to participate."

Posted By: Jane Hudson on 02-13-2016, 11:21 am
"I think it's light years, not miles. But who's counting. Anyway, you might like this, by Samuel Menashe, an old-- now deceased!-- sort of poet friend, and a poem that I liked and taught once to my 4th grade IGC class, my first teaching job, me just out of college. Good to see you writing, old fellow! "Pity us By the sea, On the sand so briefly.""

Posted By: Stephen Rifkin on 02-13-2016, 10:08 am
"Yeah, but on the other hand, we're all we got, and luckily capable of digging the irony."

Posted By: jimmy midnight on 02-13-2016, 09:43 am