We live in an expanding universe.
My universe expands, I cannot accept the steady-state,
However shrill those cowards who hide behind an eternity
In which all is as it is as it was as it shall be - PAP!
Why should this reality be the end of the line?
What audacity to think that our mortal perception,
Timorous and yet accreting on the coral reef of knowledge,
Will not itself be put out of the textbooks
When our grandchildren discover
What ignorant savages we are
And then seek to reconstruct the cosmos
In their own image - and so it goes -
Worlds linked without end -
Looping into a necklace, a pretty bauble,
That we proudly give our sweetheart:
"Here, my love, the stars, the moon, the Big Bang,
All for you in the intimacy of our heart.
This jewel was handed down from my great-great grandpa;
He discovered that light from distant windows
Breaks red if from the Western World,
So be thou my star."
And remember this as you must:
We live in an expanding universe.
