Extraordinary Truths

The endless years that have elapsed
  since atoms shattered emptiness
 
    igniting stars and galaxies
      with elemental energies

must not be wasted here tonight

    nor fall toward mediocrity
      beneath the grief of gravity.

Let's leave our sleep and wake to see
  the grandeur of cosmology,
 
     the reasons things gain force and mass
        in orbits that shall crash or pass,
 
    how space and time define but part,

  or where death ends when lost souls start
prospecting heavens past a prayer.
 
Come peer beyond this cosmic glare:

    our universe of cyclic births,

      of untold worlds and rarer Earths,

        how black holes, fed upon our light,
           now teem with secrets kept from sight

         – extraordinary truths to know
       when thoughts like rockets freely go
    toward weightlessness, escaping speeds,
exploring how all life proceeds.





Extraordinary Truths © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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Revised June 2022.

Not Waking Up to Be Mediocre challenge prompt - link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2770419-I-did-not-wake-up-to-be-mediocre-
Submitted: January 21, 2021









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