Flight of Fancy

Let your mind’s eye fly forward

Right out the window

Through that faint reflection

Of your lounge.

Let it fly

Over those regulated blocks

We call estates

The ant city landscape

Then over the plains

To the sea.

Head to the far horizon,

Over the curve

Of The Earth

And on

Into blackest space.

Out by Pluto

Through Orion’s Belt

And The Milky Way.

Beyond Andromeda

And countless galaxy clusters.

Then look back

Towards our tiny blue marble.

Look back

At everything we know.

See how trivial

We humans

Really are.

Our world,

A tiny speck

Upon the canvas

Of the cosmos.

One grain of sand

Upon an infinite beach.

Then fly back home

But still remember

That the Glory of Existence

Is Everywhere

To be enjoyed

And cherished

While ever we live.

Paul Butters

© PB 21\7\2020.