19 - Surviving with Grace

NASA/Hubble - Nebula

We... sentient sparks of life on the edge...

           can we survive with grace?                      

We can find the relative infinity of space

           full of beauty.

We can paint the blackness of the night,

           within the spectrum of colors visible by our eyes.

We can fill the void of an animal mind

           with the awe of our imagination.

We can expect to generate sense

           out of random existence.

We can grow faith from nothing at all

           for the purpose of discovering joy.

We can use reason at long last

           and become the very gods raised on blind hope.

We can scrape the last strength of our primitive selves

           to annihilate the devils in our midst.

We, humans, are the ever-demanding avatars

           of our own desires...

JSR