Insignificance.
The entire race, petty politics.
Backstabbing politicians. Lies.
No truths.
The Grand Canyon.
Nature emulating Mankind.
A massive rift.
Religion and politics, mixed together.
relipologionitics.
Arab rising, infidels of the west unite against the eastern Muslim world.
The Muslim world victimized by the west.
Those scum-filled consumerist dogs. Wasteful degenerative civilization.
We disapprove of the world of the east.
Their world is wrong. We are right.
They hate us, we hate them.
B-2 Spirit bomber, $2,000,000,000 each to build.
Meanwhile $1,000,000,000 people starve in Africa, a mere statistic to the rest of the world.
The EU falls apart.
Greece is gone. No money
Christianity holds onto itself, its core tenants failing and falling, falling and failing.
Evil atheists RISING. Secularism threatening the world.
Equal rights.
Homosexuals
Women
Children
Men
Religious Values
On the edge of the atmosphere, Felix Baumgartner looks down
on the earth.
Red Bull gave him Wings.
And money. Cold hard cash.
He must come back
to it.
He is
part
of
it.
Billions of Gods, ours is right.
Billions of stars, we don't care.
Formed from cataclysmic explosion, 15,000,000,000 years ago.
Clouds condensing, elements forming, life evolves.
Religion says no, Galileo dies. Darwin can't believe it.
We are but an infinitesimal speck of dust on the lens of the cosmos.
But all that matters is my paycheck.
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Cosmic Insignificance
PoetryA poem exploring the insignificant squabbles and tenants of humanity, against a backdrop of an infinitely large universe.
