HEADS OR TAILS
WAY TOO MILKY!
We give it such a cosy little name,
As though sweetening it
Will make it less terrifying.
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Then we give that very name
To a chocolate bar,
So that, by eating it, we can prevail!
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The Milky Way.....
How about
Snow Path
or
Sprinkle Street?
Anything to cut it down
To our own dimension.
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The reality of it
Is too overwhelming.
It makes us feel small,
When, of course, we're not!
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Face it!
We are a dot
On a dot
Dependent on a dot
Among dots and dots and dots......
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A star is a sun,
Not an earth-like planet.
We cannot see
What equates to us up there
Because it is too small,
Too unimportant.
Sorry!
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Our sun is a nothing, too.
So small,
So insignificant.
Our sun!
That controls our lives!
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Multiply our sun by
Two hundred billion
To gauge its importance!
Pshaw!
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And there are billions of galaxies!
But why bother looking at them!
They are probably no longer there!
Gobbled up by black holes
Eternities ago!
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Then there's the little matter of the Universe....,
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And all the other Universes
Outside the Universe!
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And the neverendingness of it all!
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To hell with it!
Give me a Milky Way!
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The Universe.
Each dot is a Galaxy!
Forget it!
Enjoy!
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Trying to come to terms here:
