Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Because

 

(Schrodinger's Cat -Picture Credit - Science Alert com)

It might well be that the cosmos exists

Only because we do too

And we sense the universe around us.

It’s like Schrodinger’s Cat:

Only existing for sure when we

Open The Box.

Or that Double Slit Quantum Particle Thing

By Thomas Young

Where Quanta seem to know

When we are watching.

 

Those glorious sunrises and sunsets

What we live for

Only appear

Because we are here.

 

Without us there is soulless light

Shining upon indifferent clouds

In a realm of lifeless gas, dust

And rock.

 

We are the ones who see

The awesome beauty of the sky

And all beneath it.

The ugly stuff too.

It is ourselves who decide what is beautiful

And what is but a scar on the landscape.

 

It’s a shame that we are here

For such a fleeting moment

In the wider scope of things:

This eternity.

So we must pass the baton on

To the next generation.

 

Our only hope is that the children

Will love the world

Better than we have done.

 

Paul Butters

 

© PB 30\5\2023.

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