The Scale of Things
\nby cricketjeff on April 11, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nSat on worlds I’ll never hear of, lit by suns I’ll never see,
\nAre there other part-time poets gazing out to not see me?
\nOn a trillion trillion boulders, round a billion billion stars,
\nAre there alien consumers riding bikes or driving cars?
\nWill we ever hear them speaking, know their hopes or guess their dreams,
\nAs they love away their lifetimes lit by other-moonly beams?<\/p>\n
If you tried to count the atoms in a single grain of salt,
\nOr the molecules that flavour Scotland’s finest single malt,
\nYou would start to see the vastness of the universal scale
\nAnd however hard you struggled your attempts would surely fail.
\nThough our minds are vastly complex they are like an earthworm’s brains,
\nWhen compared to all the wonders that our universe contains.<\/p>\n
When they search they find that atoms are far emptier than space,
\nNow they’ve built a huge collider that may prove why that’s the case.
\nOther men make mighty mirrors that can see far back in time,
\nTo before the fateful moment when things first crawled from the slime.
\nAs I read through these researches I work hard to find a clue —
\nOn these worlds across the cosmos, could there be another you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Scale of Things by cricketjeff on April 11, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Sat on worlds I’ll never hear of, lit by suns I’ll never see, Are there other part-time poets gazing out to not see me? On a trillion trillion boulders, round a billion billion stars, Are there alien consumers riding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5027","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6481,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5027\/revisions\/6481"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}