The Blink of an Eye

[pipersfancy]

Given the topic of your poem, I'd be curious to see your thoughts on a poem I submitted for this contest back in January entitled, "Murmurations". Only if you are so inclined, of course! I posted it so long ago, I think the only way to access it now is from my own profile page.

[MHenry]

Hi, pipersfancy, Thanks for your comment, and the parenthetical recognition!

[pipersfancy]

Lovely exploration of unknown and unknowable truths... (And... I think Einstein most definitely came from an advanced Alien race...)

[MHenry]

Thank you, graydon. I appreciate your valuable feedback and the time you invest to read and remark.
Thank you for the 'like" Suz-zen!

[graydon archer]

This is an awe inspiring write MHenry! To say we were the first, the only, and the last, are merely opinions formed by those intellectuality incapable of inductive reasoning.

[MHenry]

The Blink of an Eye

From a distance, a mosaic of color
As if looking through a prism
Over a dark, vast and starry background
Holding secrets of millenniums past
Never to be known by humankind

A tiny piece of an infinite space
Incomprehensibly far away
Created by a supreme being
Or the inevitable clash of unknowable forces
Destined forever to attract and repel

Now, peering back, back, back in time
Through ancient shafts of light
Now, detecting strange new objects
Through wobbles, flickers, and ripples
Looking back to the moment of creation

Objects billions of times brighter
More massive than our sun
Unexplained phenomenon
Celestial bodies defying physics
Einstein's theories proved right again

Particles - elusive, infinitesimally small
Discovered in high speed collisions
The building blocks of life
Scattered about the universe
In the hearts and tails of comets

The secrets of the human genome
Uncovered and spliced
3d printers, proteins and amino acids
Programmed to print embryos remotely
Pick a size, a shape, a color

Pay in Bitcoin, or use Applepay
Sorry, we've been hacked
A hostile foreign government
Has your genome, your social security number
And the proceeds of your bank accounts

Odds are, humankind
Is not the first intelligent species
To inhabit the universe
Odds are, it won't be the last
A blink of an eye and we are gone