danifilth2

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors.
So that, in glory and triumph....
They could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner.
Of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner.
How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined selfimportance, the delusion.
That we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonley speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elswhere.
TO save us from ourselves.