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- We have one collective hope: the Earth And yet,
- uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound
- Sufferers hurl themselves into the arms of war;
- people kill and get killed in the name of someone else's concept of God
- Do we admit that our thoughts & behaviors spring from a belief
- that the world revolves around us? Each fabricated conflict,
- self-murdering bomb, vanished airplane, every fictionalized dictator,
- biased or partisan, and wayward son,
- are part of the curtains of society's racial, ethnic, religious, national,
- and cultural conflicts,
- and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers
- When I track the orbits of asteroids, comets, and planets,
- each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet,
- choreographed by the forces of gravity,
- I see beyond the plight of humans
- I see a universe ever-expanding,
- with its galaxies embedded within the ever-stretching
- four-dimensional fabric of space and time
- However big our world is, our hearts, our minds,
- our outsize atlases, the universe is even bigger
- There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the world's beaches,
- more stars in the universe than seconds of time that have passed since Earth formed,
- more stars than words & sounds ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived
- The day we cease the exploration of the cosmos
- is the day we threaten the continuing of our species
- In that bleak world, arms-bearing,
- resource-hungry people & nations would be prone to act on their low-contracted prejudices,
- and would have seen the last gasp of human enlightenment
- Until the rise of a visionary new culture that once again embraces the cosmic perspective;
- a perspective in which we are one, fitting neither above nor below, but within
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