In five billion years, a red giant will devour
not just Mercury and Venus but Earth as well
forget that tidbit, our galaxy will collide
in four billion years with Andromeda, to shower
virtual moments on the page to contemplate
egregious mistakes, how important is the hell
burning an ulcer in your stomach, I confide
in six billion years, life on Earth will be fiction
let me remind you, tolerance is worth the wait
let serenity be unexpected and hope
in a brighter world not be something to despair
only newsworthy catastrophes, throw a rope
nothing to frustrate the mind other than winds fair
yes, reality shifts as we face addiction
endless ages pass, humans come and go, we leave
an atrocious mess, for the next five billion years
really, what matters, our ability to cope
sucker punched by Jove, Jupiter let us believe
as the influence of gravitational force
reasonably shaped our solar system, who hears
echoes of time bent as a metaphor or trope
difficult to say how a planet has more pull
given its great mass, than the sun, such a divorce
insists on balance, gas giant as a failed star
albeit Saturn also fails to brightly burn
nervous energy abounds, the truth from afar
travels quite slowly unlike light, how it can turn
wisdom inside-out, when god appears as a bull
illustrated myths illuminate to explain
lightning and thunder, personified in being
little did we know, scientific inquiry
demands questioning the surplus assets we gain
each failure we face beyond acceptance or fear
vision envisions possibilities, seeing
objections in light of truth hidden in theory
understanding time as limited, empower
reason to perform miracles when death is near
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