INCONSEQUENTIALA Poem by papaedRumination on man's place on this planetverdant dot in the black void invisible from only one light year clutched by invisible cosmic forces heat and light dependent spun by chaos and an inert moon the present moment streaming the fourth dimension unguessed future, unchangeable past a thin, precarious film tenaciously grips the surface a finite number of particles flowing, liquid, filled with life ever more complex metamorphosing, combining, reproducing a delicate mixture of molecular constructs maintaining an intricate barely-balanced system Then in a short interval between planetary catastrophic events, man appears, evolves, becomes self-aware, destructive, consuming, arrogant inconsequential drifting in the stream of the world © 2012 papaedFeatured Review
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9 Reviews Added on August 12, 2012 Last Updated on August 12, 2012 AuthorpapaedKansas City, MOAboutno erudite pontifications, no complex extrapolations no intentional hurtful lies, just simple age-wise aliteration and prose, of a man who's in the throes of living day to day from his head down to.. more..Writing
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