Plume Cloud

Are they right?

Is our “Universe”

The Be All and End All?

Is it even the Only One?

Or is our universe one plume

In an infinite cloud of plumes?

One rocket in a great celestial

Fireworks display?

We may well ask.

And ponder on the notion this plume cloud

May be replicated

Countless times

In parallel dimensions:

A multiverse

Beyond our wildest dreams.

And God may be

A God

Amongst a Race of Gods:

The Greeks and Romans right,

After all.

Yet what matters most to us

When all is said and done,

I have to say,

Is none of that

But simply

Whatever happens here

On this little blue world

In this corner of

The Milky Way.

Paul Butters