Perspective And The Journey

Our Universe
is unimaginably large.
Tendrils of galaxies
spreading out in every direction
as far as the eye
can see.
Hundreds of millions
in every direction.
Some estimates
suggest there could be
one trillion
galaxies in our universe.
Each galaxy contains
hundreds of million stars.
Many now believe
our universe is but one
in an ever-expanding
multiverse
of limitless size and age.
We live our lives
on a mote of material
small beyond definition.
How do we square
this reality?
How
do we keep things in
perspective?
What’s the point really?
We are just specks on a speck.
Organized
human civilization
is maybe 20,000 years old.
The industrial revolution
only two hundred years old,
we believed 100 years ago
our galaxy was the universe.
Our understanding of reality
has come far
yet it’s just a pinpoint
on an infinite
scale of knowledge.
The point I guess
is the journey,
keeping our existence
in perspective,
staying humble
and keep pushing
the envelope
of our knowledge.