Tiny Bug

(Picture Credit - Scutelloridae Bug by Wiki)

See the grandeur of our universe:

Flocks of far-flung galaxies,

Shrouded by clouds of swirling gas.

A vastness too great to comprehend,

Filled with solar systems

That defy imagination.

Yet none of this is as wondrous

As a tiny bug:

A “lickle life form”

That can look around

And say to itself

(In a language of its own):

I am here.

This is my world.

No idea what is beyond

What I can sense,

But I know I’m here.

And even the greatest galaxy

Cannot do that.

Paul Butters

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