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
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
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