Timing

4.54 billion years, the age of Earth, is an unfathomable length of time to exhibit perfect timing

She hangs there like a Sossusvlei sand dune.
This 73,477,000,000,000,000,000 ton

 swayback horse
weightless in the wait of time
while we watch her with our random hunger

If she fell to us...
if she flipped her hair back as a concert pianist
flips his coat tails
gently, a precisely floating 

flutter in the black of nothing matters
preparing for the performance of her life...
her swan dive every bit as majestic

as she climbs into her starlit black Lamborghini

and drifted along that orbital distance

only 238,855 green miles away
as we do at 60 miles per hour
she would kiss our reverent face

in less than one

human revolution of the sun,

looming ever larger
till she blotted out everything of our heavenly view
all except...
whatever love or crutch holds us cradled 

in their arms
till our gravitational pull
slams her pretty opal mouth
right into our screaming teeth,
but for her,
it wouldn't be a very long drive at all.

It blows my mind how 

that anyone 

can look up at something so massive

and not wonder how

it stays right there.

what keeps her at bay? just out of reach

this  73,477,000,000,000,000,000 ton

weightless contradiction of the grandest scale

the only difference between that rock and ours

is the breath and spit that creates life.

No one will ever convince me that it's all

accidental orchestration 

it's all too perfectly

timed and executed

to be random...not once

in 4.54 billion years

has she been dethroned.

 4.54 billion years

Reviews

[Dave Brown]

that is an extended tribute very impressively done
I am hoping she'll stay in place for at least 30ish more years at least

[Corset]

it boggles the mind with a number that large to grasp the implications in terms of reality ..that's a long a*s time! even in the magnitude of our space to stay weightless anywhere if something huge hits us. lol

[jacob erin-cilberto]

all of that invisible interference?
or do the moon and sun keep their distance out of respect?
maybe we should respect what we have her a little bit more.
Gravity is a good thing...I don't think floating in space would be too engaging...
really like this...more to it than simple astronomy---
On that note, I'll take Orbits for 200, Alex.
j.

[Corset]

lol, thanks for the chuckle Jacob.