Dear Humanity

Dear Humanity,

Who seems so distracted

Gazing in rapt attention

Upon the undefined

In trying to unravel

Some design from it

Here you are in

This vast emptiness

A speck of dust within a void

So great, it is all you'd see

If it weren't for you

Having inhabited it

Where electron journeys from proton

Within each atom of your presence

Light years in their proportions

Before they might meet another

And all that empty space

Comprises you

Remains unseen. unnoticed

For the glow of activity

Your tiniest pieces thrust

Upon the nothing

Here you are, insignificant

In proportion, yet undeniable in your

Distortion

Of the hollows you bound fervently

In

Where such vast bodies

As Helios, Jupiter

And Mother Earth

Communicate only in light-echoes

Across the oceans of space

Where even dear Luna only shows half her face

To you

Here you are as

Quarks, among the atoms of your known universe

Insects among

This grand celestial picnic

Yet a part of this you are

Beings among the stars

Travelling those light-years in your hearts

And minds, keeping time

To entropy

That among those countless stretches

Those inquantifiable recesses

You have come to exist

Is pure chance, and yet

That you have come to love

Those subatomic glitches

Betrothed to the same collection

Of circumstances as you are

Is a necessary condition

Without the noise in the picture

You would be

All alone

And in the vastness of my furthest reaches

You might never even

Notice

For even as individuals

You are constantly fragmenting

Littering your pockets of existence

With letters and thoughts and love

A beautiful thing, surely

That you have each other

To share the story of your imperfection

Your imperceptible impact

Upon these vast stretches

Of almost naught

Is all that grants you

Significance

It is you, it is love

That is all that prevails

Against the unending expanse

Of emptiness

With love,

The Universe

From her grand infinite

To her most miniscule of

Inhabitants.