Kevin Hulme

Musings on a Sowbug

To a Sowbug this Room of mine is a Microcosm of the known World, 

The Expanding Universe of all awareness,

The Here and Now of it\'s daily strife.

Tomorrow an unthought of Event,

Yesterday, a board wiped clean with Lethe\'s Brew.

It knows nothing of Human History,

Or the Trillions of its Kin long dead.

Geography being the Wanderings along Miles of dusty Carpet,

A Monotonous landscape to blunt the eye.

And the Girdle of Ocean that meets the land:

An Obscene Notion dreamt by fools.

The four Walls a vast Horizon into where?

For isn\'t the World flat?

If it could stop - and Ponder on the Nature of it all:

There\'s a Tungsten Filament within the Sun -

And I a God.