redheadedleague

And now... geek poetry.

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Far across a vault of trackless vacuum
Over a hundred million years ago
Hydrogen did a dying star consume
To multiply its fierce resplendent glow

Countless offspring were born in that plasma
The nuclei were left trapped deep within
But photons broke free of the miasma
Flew true and pierced the red coronal skin

As sprites of light they crossed the endless black
With timeless grace through spiral arms they hurled
Bent by a subtle gravimetric track
That brought them to a swirling bluish world

Late on a cold clear night ten winters past
Long eons since the star had met its doom
Right through a pane of glass those photons passed
Refracted through the prism in my room

They met their end within my tired eyes
And in the darkness it occurred to me
That light knows not of time but still it dies
As do black holes and baryons, and we

But I consider it a miracle
That here between the great and small
A chunk of complex carbon molecules
Could ever even have this thought, at all