In the
ignorance of my own ignorance
I conceive
the world in my own reality
Woeful
inability to fathom time
I arrange my
grand conceptions in holy words
And laze
around in god gifted exceptionalist ways
While the
lizard on the wall negotiates life’s chances in 30m years
Dragonfly accumulates
200m years of brilliance
Coconut palm
sways in the knowledge of 60m years
All around
me the universe hints at infinite
The sun,
moon and planets drift in unbounded temporality
Of churning
galaxies, blackholes and dark matter
I will have
to work my reasons to the schemes of earth
Spaced in
eons, eras and periods
There are
forces that break apart continents and rearrange
Lift
mountains to the sky
Drain ocean
and move glacier
Break granite
cliffs into pebbles and sand
It can unleash
magma
Floods and
fires that last centuries
I lack
capacity to conceive this grand scale
Every day I
make petrified sunlight work for my comfort
Each ounce release trapped million years
Heat the
planet to match 125,000 years history
Ocean acidity inch to 300m mark
Species
vanish, diversity reduce, resilience brittles to break
I reduce
eons and eras to mere decades and years
I am the
force that shapes the earth
Fate that
await is incapacity of my imagination
A fantasy of
survival show
An audience
ill-equipped to win
Sometimes there
is an unplanned rupture in self
In the passing
glimpse of setting sun
The way
petals arrange into flower
Deep time
frays in the seams
Soon to knit
back its natural awe
And awaken
sense of sublime
To reach for a responsible self
